STFU and listen, man
Posted by myg
I’ve got another post underway where I rip apart all this damned nonsense about how lame Second Life is, how big corporations say it’s a waste, you know the drill. All I can say is, it’s about imagination people. If you haven’t got any, then maybe this isn’t the virtual world for you.
But seems there are a lot of folks who do have it, as evidenced by the 9 sims worth of creation assembled in celebration for Second Life’s 4th Birthday. Wandering through leaves me no doubt there are plenty of talented people in the world and that Second Life isn’t a bad place to find them. One of my favorite finds is this very cool piece of auditory sculpture pictured above.
You can click the hemispheres and make them change colors, but better than that, you can walk through them and trigger samples of singing. Each bubble triggers a different sound. Click the link to hear my random creation.
From the notecard:
I was intrigued with the idea of building an interactive singing sculpture. A simple melody somewhat in the same key, served as a guideline for three vocalists to sing the basic tones. Once recorded they were imported in SL. The voices were not enhanced or altered which adds warmth to the sound. Each syllable was imbedded into a single prim. Avatars can walk through 3 rows of circular prims to activate sounds. - Daruma Picnic
So go on ahead and make your own song at Daruma’s exhibit at SL4B (SLURL) Then you can use it to drown out the sounds of the unimaginative whining about how there’s nothing cool to do in Second Life.
Sable, Orchid, October and I were mesmerized by that piece the other night. The question I have is that when you click them to change the color, does it change the sample as well? Can you rearrange the tune? Or is it just window dressing? (That’s how tired I was when I was playing around, I didn’t actually uncover that information, even though I stumbled around in it for a good half hour.)
Hmmm you know I don’t know. I don’t think so. A good question for Daruma Picnic.
I love that! I listened for the three voices, the effect is charming and amazing. Thank you for sharing that with us, Myg. Daruma Picnic’s sculpture is on my SL Best Ideas list! /hugs
i am absolutely entranced. can’t stop listening. help me. no, can that, it’s astounding. another sonic device i found sticky was robbie dingo’s.
I know! Isn’t it cool? I keep going back to that sculpture to play around in it. Gets my brain humming on what the future holds for sound in SL too. Will check out robbie dingo’s device–can anyone tell me where to find it?
I visited the singing sculpture yesterday and met Daruma. It was so fantastical, I teleported several of my friends. We ran through the sculpture like kids through a sprinkler. Daruma is great.
robbie’s “whisper box” device can be found on his parcel at Scafell (46, 147, 47). the function/feature explanations (along with notecards within the device) can be found on his blog: digitaldouble. another thing i realized after searching his blog…he made Suzanne Vega’s guitar for her appearance in sl. all in all, an aural/sonic genius.
There’s no aural equivalent for “Let me show you something.”
I loved that installation. I remarked that it reminded me of Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde musician (I have a quote by her in my 1st life tab in my profile).