Metamusic forum now up !

October 8, 2007 in Delivering Media to the Virtual Realm, Second Life, Soundtracks, Virtual Platform, virtual worlds | Tags: Events, Grid Architecture, Linden Lab

Following a very exciting first meet up of the metamusic group in Second Life, I have set up a forum specifically for this huge discussion. I will post seperately and summarise what happened in the meeting.

I will summarise the key points from the forum discussion in regular blog posts here. It will also feed back into Linden Labs Second Life Music Development mailing list.

The forum can be found here :

http://metamusic.forumarena.com

Hi there ! My name is Robert Thomas, and I'm a composer interested in unusual ways music can become a soundtrack to your life. I run a small music company called Dizzy Banjo. I also go under the name Dizzy Banjo in numerous social networks and environments.

I've done a lot of work creating music for unusual places, including virtual spaces, video games and mobile devices.

My work has explored numerous ways of tracking user behaviour and making music reactive to it, including VOIP, gestures and keystrokes, physical movement and activity patterns of individuals and groups.

At the moment I am working on a number of projects, but spending a lot of time as a reactive music composer with :

RjDj is an amazing iPhone application which creates mind twisting hearing sensations by weaving your environment into reactive music. Voices, cars, your walking speed.. these and many other things can be used to shape your experience. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, try it!