Music

Gisle Martens Meyer is a Norwegian media artist and musician who performs as Ugress under his label Uncanny Planet. Gisle commissioned the development of some new Vuo nodes for his live audiovisual performances and has generously allowed us to share them with the community in Vuo 2.4.3.

Espen Sommer Eide (@materialvision), a composer based out of Bergen, Norway, has an unusual approach to musical art. By using sound as “both method and medium,” Espen works to break down the artificial divide between audio and visual representations and tools.

In the city of Mandurah on the west coast of Australia, with its beaches, estuaries, wetlands, and canals, you’re never far from the sights and sounds of water. Paul Bourke recently used Vuo to convey the familiar sights and sounds in an entirely new way: a fulldome installation called the Hydrodome that “focuses on our community’s connection to our waterways from Mandurah’s ancient Bindjareb heritage to 21st century recreation.”

Justin Beardsell (@meno) of Studio Meno is collaborating with Dolby to bring a new clubbing experience to Ministry of Sound in London — and he’s using Vuo behind the scenes.

Ministry of Sound has introduced a Dolby Atmos sound system that creates 3D soundscapes. Unlike with typical stereo tracks, listeners hear the music moving through space, coming from different sides and overhead.

Rallentando is an interactive installation that uses Vuo to invoke a multi-sensory virtual forest. Using a combination of images, sounds, and interactive performance, “the audience experiences a gradual slackening of tempo, leaving behind the distractions of contemporary urban life.”

Rallentando was created by Gwenyth Dobie, with William Mackwood (@wmackwood) leading the technical integration. Gwenyth and William, co-artistic directors of Out of the Box Productions, recently installed Rallentando at Hub14 in Toronto.

The play “The Floor: Shopping Rolls Camouflaged” is a foray into a surreal world of gravity-defying motion. By turns funny, poignant, and exuberant, the performance blends the human with the technological. Vuo plays a major role in this performance written and directed by Teo Dumski.

Imagine scratching the air like a turntable to make a particle system groove. Anthony Gene Guterac made it happen with his Vuo composition, 02_, controlled by Leap Motion and live audio input.