When I learned that the Wikitecture design platform had won a coveted architecture award, I immediately tried to get an interview with its co-creator, Keystone Bouchard. That turned out to be difficult, because Keystone (or rather his real life incarnation, Jon Bouchard) was busy in San Jose, helping launch the real world version of his Wikisonic project in the Tech Museum. It was one of seven SL-made designs chosen by a Museum contest to make the leap from Second Life to the real world. While Wikitecture facilitates collaborative, wiki-style 3D building, Wikisonic is made for collaborative music-- you and your friends activate multiple sound samples, and try to orchestrate them into an harmonious soundscape. (Think Rock Band meets Jimmy Wales.)
"It was awesome to see little kids exploring it, making different chords, working together to create a song," Keystone tells me. (A bigger kid named Philip was also on hand to catch its unveiling.) Read more and see a demo video about Wikisonic on Keystone's blog, and on this Tech Museum blog. The Second Life version of Wikisonic is still in-world-- click this direct SLURL teleport to get there. The physical version of Wikisonic is still in San Jose (along with the other selected entries)-- click this Tech Museum link for more info. Whichever version you play with, be sure to bring along some friends to get the full effect.
Image credit, right: Museum 2.0.
OMG!
YEAH!
AWESOME!
Keystone you rule <3
Totally the right person to have picked >.<
Posted by: ColeMarie | Monday, June 09, 2008 at 07:09 AM
Just wanted to drop an FYI note that I wrote about this in late May, http://www.trending.us/2008/05/24/wikisonic-in-second-life-amazing-interactive-music-generation/
Posted by: Geuis Dassin | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM