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“The older I get the more I understand what is special about how we experience music. It’s either one-on-one, or thousands of people at a festival where you lose yourself. It’s not intellectual, it’s impulsive. Virtual reality is a natural continuity of that. It has a lot of intimacy” – Bjork, to The Guardian
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“The goal is to bring people together but also create this new type of experience.”
TheWaveVR is an Austin-based company founded earlier this year that is bringing virtual reality technology to the music industry with a new DJing platform of the same name. The online app is accessible through a variety of virtual reality headsets, including the HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard. “Basically it’s a virtual venue in the cloud where someone can go into this venue and DJ,” explained Adam Arrigo, one of the company’s founders. “The audience can be networked in from anywhere in the world and actually be virtually represented in this venue and interact with each other, dance and watch this concert…” much more at VICE
“…monitor your form and technique to teach the piano…”
You’ve likely seen light-up musical keyboards that teach you how to play a song with visual cues, but few of those devices exist and have a limited number of songs you can actually learn. But Karl Baumann and his HoloLens Hackathon team figured out that in mixed reality, you can learn music with visual cues with any piano. Video: . The result of their 48-hour HoloHacks session in Los Angeles is HoloKeys: a proof-of-concept app that teaches simply melodies with colored overlays for the keys … Read the full story
I know, I know. Isn’t pop music written by robots already? Har har. But really: Researchers at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratory in Paris have shared a pair of tracks created with the assistance of software called Flow Machines. The program analyzes a database of existing songs to “learn” musical styles and identify commonalities, then “[exploits] unique combinations of style transfer, optimization, and interaction … Read the full story