Atau Tanaka
The potential of Internet sound art is immense. It is allowing composers to have direct interaction with audiences. It usually necessitates that composers collaborate with artists of other disciplines. It breaks down geographic boundaries. It redefines the roles of composer, performer and audience.
Currently though, Internet sound art is plagued with a variety of problems. The net is still not good for live interaction due to time delays. The low bit rates required for streaming deteriorate sound quality. Interactive instruments only allow multiple-choice-type mouse-clicking by the audience, with no opportunities for creative subtlety. The audience is limited by their amount of computer memory, Internet connection speed, and availability of programs needed to participate in the piece.
Rather than trying to overcome or marginalize obstacles presented by the current limitations of Internet sound, Atau Tanaka's "MP3q" incorporates these limitations into the work. It accepts the current state of affairs and mirrors the social and time dynamic of the Internet. Tanaka calls his piece a "shared online sound space." The site itself avoids use of any graphics or other memory-hogging devices.
When a visitor enters the "MP3q" site he or she sees a track list. Each track is a series of URLs that link to MP3 files on other sites. The visitor selects a track and then sees the list of URLs inside a frame surrounded by images of stationary arrows. The visitor may click on one or more tracks at any time to begin streaming an MP3. The visitor glides the mouse around the screen to make the group of files move around the screen and become larger or smaller. These variants in the placement and size affect the gain (loudness or softness) of the files. Tanaka's concept allows participants to realize the mix in real-time on their own computers.
Anyone can contribute an MP3 link to the site by following simple prompts on the site. The contributed file must be low bitrate and available on a web server somewhere on the Internet.
Atau Tanaka was born in Tokyo, and was raised in the U.S. He came up in Silicon Valley in the 90's making music from virtual reality technology.
This interactive Internet soundsculpture can be kept growing by its users. Japanese composer Atau Tanaka designed a series of three-dimensional graphic-linear structures, consisting of web addresses. These lead to mp3-soundfiles, which exist on different servers worldwide.By gliding the mouse, the website's visitor can move the alphanumerical structure and experience it as a three-dimensional entity. The soundfiles appearing were composed and arranged carefully by the artist. By clicking on the selected web addresses, several streams are activated simultaneously and can be mixed to complex polyphony. The visitor of this site can keep the architecture growing in contributing with the web address of his or her own mp3-file, which Tanaka will then insert into the existing structure.
Currently though, Internet sound art is plagued with a variety of problems. The net is still not good for live interaction due to time delays. The low bit rates required for streaming deteriorate sound quality. Interactive instruments only allow multiple-choice-type mouse-clicking by the audience, with no opportunities for creative subtlety. The audience is limited by their amount of computer memory, Internet connection speed, and availability of programs needed to participate in the piece.
Rather than trying to overcome or marginalize obstacles presented by the current limitations of Internet sound, Atau Tanaka's "MP3q" incorporates these limitations into the work. It accepts the current state of affairs and mirrors the social and time dynamic of the Internet. Tanaka calls his piece a "shared online sound space." The site itself avoids use of any graphics or other memory-hogging devices.
When a visitor enters the "MP3q" site he or she sees a track list. Each track is a series of URLs that link to MP3 files on other sites. The visitor selects a track and then sees the list of URLs inside a frame surrounded by images of stationary arrows. The visitor may click on one or more tracks at any time to begin streaming an MP3. The visitor glides the mouse around the screen to make the group of files move around the screen and become larger or smaller. These variants in the placement and size affect the gain (loudness or softness) of the files. Tanaka's concept allows participants to realize the mix in real-time on their own computers.
Anyone can contribute an MP3 link to the site by following simple prompts on the site. The contributed file must be low bitrate and available on a web server somewhere on the Internet.
Atau Tanaka was born in Tokyo, and was raised in the U.S. He came up in Silicon Valley in the 90's making music from virtual reality technology.
This interactive Internet soundsculpture can be kept growing by its users. Japanese composer Atau Tanaka designed a series of three-dimensional graphic-linear structures, consisting of web addresses. These lead to mp3-soundfiles, which exist on different servers worldwide.By gliding the mouse, the website's visitor can move the alphanumerical structure and experience it as a three-dimensional entity. The soundfiles appearing were composed and arranged carefully by the artist. By clicking on the selected web addresses, several streams are activated simultaneously and can be mixed to complex polyphony. The visitor of this site can keep the architecture growing in contributing with the web address of his or her own mp3-file, which Tanaka will then insert into the existing structure.
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