touching light
Touching Light is an original work for percussionist and Mixed Reality environment that explores the border areas between the physical world that we see around us, and the worlds of infinite possibility that each of us holds in our imagination.
This music is designed to be performed through a combination of physical instruments and virtual technologies through an experience called ‘Mixed Reality.’ The Microsoft HoloLens 2, the device worn by the performer, allows the user to see and interact with virtual objects, holograms that exist invisibly in the space around the performer.
As a result of this research, I also had an opportunity to contribute to the Microsoft Humans of Mixed Reality Blog!
music in mixed reality
When I look at an object, instead of categorizing it based on whether it is an instrument, I imagine the sorts of sounds that it could make, I see its potential, I ‘listen.’ This curiosity led me eventually to the intersection of music and electronics, and further still, to the integration of music-making and mixed reality.
Read my dissertation:
Touching Light: A Framework for the Facilitation of Music-Making in Mixed Reality (2021)
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As part of the development process for Touching Light, in order to most closely emulate the SCRUM prototyping methodology, I kept a public ‘development log’ accessible via my website which will remain in place indefinitely.
For the purpose of preserving these articles, their full text, along with URLs to videos referenced in the posts have been recreated here in full, as posted, inclusive of typographical and grammatical errors.
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