Etude for Virtual Space
Etude for Virtual Space is an interdisciplinary virtual reality project integrating music and visual design. Four musicians of a string quartet are placed in a virtual environment which the users can navigate to experience interactive sounds, shapes and colours.
The music is based on a collection of sound spectra that stretch, compress or overlap gradually transforming into one another. Musical parameters such as pitch, duration, dynamics and spatialization are mapped to provide visual effects over and around the musicians.
Alexandros Spyrou
Cooperative Innovations Ltd
Simon Barratt
The artist
Alexandros
SPYROU
Alexandros Spyrou composes chamber, orchestral and electronic music, and writes about music and its intersection with philosophy. His music has been performed across Europe and North America by such ensembles as Klangforum Wien, London Sinfonietta, JACK Quartet, Neue Vocalsolisten, MDI Ensemble,Ensemble SurPlus, Ensemble Airborne Extended and many acclaimed soloists.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Delian Academy for New Music (Greece) and teaches composition at the University for the Creative Arts (United Kingdom).
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Cooperative Innovations is an immersive development studio with a vast amount of experience in technology, application, experience and game creation. Founders Simon Barratt and Brian Marshall are both 25+ year veterans of the games industry and using this experience have created a range of work including Curatours, a metaverse for arts, culture, heritage and museums.
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Metalogues2022 will be presenting the selected projects during the BEYOND Expo.
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Etude for
Virtual Space
by Alexandros Spyrou in collaboration with Cooperative Innovations
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Gauguin
by Dr. Markella-Elpida Tsichla & Maria Terpsidou in collaboration with Cooperative Innovations
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METALOGUES is an initiative of the Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki conducted in cooperation with Malvi creative agency, supported by the Academy of International Extended Reality and TIF-Helexpo, and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office.
METALOGUES is a program designed to meet your needs when it comes to adopting new approaches in cultural storytelling or the arts by means of Extended Reality (XR) technologies. The program aims to bring together individuals, organizations and entities from the European cultural space that have an active interest or are involved in XR projects in their field, along with XR professionals and companies that have created or have participated in similar cultural endeavours, with the purpose of advancing cross-sectoral dialogue and empowering international cooperation. METALOGUES provides a digital and physical platform for networking, knowledge transfer, development and promotion of cultural XR ventures taken up between actors in the European cultural and technological scenes.
Applications are now open for your participation at METALOGUES2022. Individuals such as artists, curators, educators and researchers, and formal or informal entities such as artistic groups and collectives, art galleries, museums, cultural centres, theatre and concert halls, from all-over Europe, are invited to apply for participation in the 2022 edition of Metalogues, which will unfold in 3 parts throughout the year.