“Cyberdream: An Interactive Rave Music Visualisation in Virtual Reality” by Weinel
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- Cyberdream: An Interactive Rave Music Visualisation in Virtual Reality
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Virtual reality (VR) provides new opportunities for the design of interactive music visualizations. Exploring this area, Cyberdream, is a prototype VR application realized through the author’s practice-led research, which provides a journey through audio-visual environments based on the aesthetics of 1990s rave music. The project provides three audiovisual ‘sound toys’, which allow the user to interactively ‘paint with sound’, thereby facilitating creative play. Through its structural form and audio-visual sound toys, Cyberdream indicates new approaches for the design of music visualizations that harness the spatial properties of VR.
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