Point Line Piano VR

Jaroslaw Kapuscinski; Marc Downie; Paul Kaiser

Image credit: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski; Marc Downie; Paul Kaiser

• Format: Installation
• Session: installations-1, installations-2
• Presence: In person
• Duration: N/A*

Abstract:

Point Line Piano is a VR project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing its modes of creating, playing, and listening. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. You start by drawing lines freely in the space around you, sparking musical notes that are notched as points on the lines as you draw them. These notes quickly accumulate, forming distinct melodic phrases and rhythms, while the computer generates an intricate audiovisual dance all around you. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument.