The Sound Explorers this summer....
It's done - the student avatars have made their debut in the virtual world of Second Life. This is only a representation of their appearance, some favor their avatars, some don't. They were birthed from many free items on SL marketplace, and most of all Virtual Spain, a site that generously provides much of what you need to start. It takes a couple of minutes to create an avatar when you log into SecondLife.com. However it takes two to four hours to style one, if you don't want to look generic.
The student avatars may evolve their appearance over the summer, but that is not the point of the course. As an avatar, they can listen and explore the virtual world. The student avatars reside in the welcoming area of Virlantis, a sim level designed for their initial immersion. Themed medieval, it is the ideal place to start to discover sounds, and some early sound and music traditions.
As an experimental course, we will be documenting this experience on this blog. Can we experience sound virtually, in a way that becomes authentic to our listening experience? Can this experience shape our listening in the "real" world?
Click on each photo to enlarge.
It's done - the student avatars have made their debut in the virtual world of Second Life. This is only a representation of their appearance, some favor their avatars, some don't. They were birthed from many free items on SL marketplace, and most of all Virtual Spain, a site that generously provides much of what you need to start. It takes a couple of minutes to create an avatar when you log into SecondLife.com. However it takes two to four hours to style one, if you don't want to look generic.
The student avatars may evolve their appearance over the summer, but that is not the point of the course. As an avatar, they can listen and explore the virtual world. The student avatars reside in the welcoming area of Virlantis, a sim level designed for their initial immersion. Themed medieval, it is the ideal place to start to discover sounds, and some early sound and music traditions.
As an experimental course, we will be documenting this experience on this blog. Can we experience sound virtually, in a way that becomes authentic to our listening experience? Can this experience shape our listening in the "real" world?
Click on each photo to enlarge.
Finally, Angelo returns to Second Life from the Spring semester course, Virtual Worlds, and joins us for Sound Art and Practice. Here is a photo from his midterm project that he developed further at the end of the semester.
own avatars for that course, as part of a segment on self-identity in virtual worlds.
Two students from that same class are helping with the set building for this new online course.
More on that later.
For now that's it~ Welcome all~
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