"Playing With Sound Beings: A Sonic Playfield", by Mariana Seiça, Licínio Roque, Pedro Martins & F. Amílcar Cardoso
How would you play with a friend that you cannot see, you can only listen to?
* intentional silence*
We present an auditory experience designed as a sound-only, touch-based journey through a playfield of sound beings.
The sound beings are auditory entities living in community, evolving their sonic presence and behaviour through interactive exchanges with their surroundings.
By combining multiple levels of reactivity and openness to interaction, we explore the notion of sonic dialogues between every participant, designing musical phonemes that are combined, extended and synchronised with each interchange to produce an interactive, orchestral piece.
[Sound Being: BERT]
[Sound Being: ERNIE]
[Sound Being: ERNIE] [User Cues]
[Sound Being: ERNIE]
[Sound Being: BERT & ERNIE]
Meet Bert and Ernie, our two sonic friends!
Ernie is our outgoing, talkative buddy, always following us around with its cheerful piano greeting
Bert is the serious, shy one, who gets very nervous around people and prefers to avoid them...
...except with its buddy Ernie!
When together, their responses become richer and even synchronous, composing a sonic dialogue with us at every word