Soliloquy is a cool new interactive music app (Mac/PC) inspired by the Coronavirus and about the Coronavirus, created by VR/adaptative music artist Robert Thomas -- previously on New World Notes here, and some of his SL-based projects here --along with Sam Dudley. Originally created for a mentoring program for UK music agency Manners McDade, the interactivity is simple, but pretty powerful:
You run Soliloquy, and type in your thoughts and feelings about COVID-19 and the quarantine/lockdown. When you type in a keyword, the ambient music evolves to correspond to that mood:
"I think it's about 130 words," Robert tells me. "All very focused around COVID and the emotional reactions of lockdown." So yes, that means there's roughly 130 different musical fragments. "There are 7 different modal feelings the music can be in, also which are triggered from any word in a group of words."
The themes/groups themselves: Happiness / family / connection, thinking / contemplation / disorientation, strangeness / media / money worries, outside / exercise / nature, social , lockdown / isolation / mental health, COVID / pandemic / illness."
As you'll see when you download the client, it's also open source -- so other developers have an option to expand on it, or use it as a framework for their own projects.
"The main reason I made it open source was to let people look inside and learn how to make this kind of stuff," as Robert puts it. "This approach could be expanded to cater for any amount of word triggers."
You could have hinted that this is from a legendary SLer - you never shied from that before. Wasn't until I read the license terms that it finally clicked =^^=
And oh no yet another code engine to play with! Neat
Posted by: sirhc desantis | Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 04:23 AM
Yeah good point, added one of his SL projects!
Posted by: Wagner James Au | Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 08:40 PM
nice
Posted by: JapanRingtones | Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 03:01 AM