The system can be configured to react to any kind of signal that can be sent over a standard serial port, allowing various types of external data to manipulate these virtual worlds. This tells the object what action to take and to what degree. Although virtual instruments can be played live and in real-time, a choreographed Soundscape can be scripted using a MIDI sequencer. A sequencer, whether it is a dedicated piece of hardware or a software, is a device that allows users to record, edit and playback layered compositions of MIDI data in real-time. Familiar to musicians as a tool for writing songs, a sequencer also becomes very useful for the choreography of visual music.
Artists can create new worlds which transform in direct relationship with their music.
Calling up various Patch Bay configurations on stage, the visual instruments may be played just as their audible counterparts are. The same information can be captured with sequencing devices in order to be presented as kinetic sculpture in a virtual environment. Inc. Fakespace Music, Push, Soundscapes and Soundsculpt Toolkit are trademarks of Fakespace, Inc. For that despotic logician had now and then with respect to art the feeling of a gap, a void, a feeling of misgiving, of a possibly neglected duty. Finally, when in prison and in order that he may thoroughly unburden his conscience, he consents to practice also this music for which he has but little respect.