Gradually, we hope to break down the distinction between broadcaster and receiver, performer and audience, by having the full set of multi-media tools available to all participants to both receive and send data, so that we can truly bring about a global visual music jam session. The bottom line is that the system be open and flexible, work in real-time, and be freely and widely available. The reason for this is that the visual-musical or other associations possible between modalities, are highly subjective and vary widely. Rather than providing a fixed set of tools that assume universal associative principles, we wish to provide the greatest flexibility possible to allow for a wide variety of unique individual and cultural identities to be shared in a global context. We want to explore in greater depth the possibilities for creating subjective relationships between modalities.
Poetry is visual-music and visual music is poetry, because it is associative.
It is the richness of the associations and the fluid possibilities for further interaction and association between multiple participants, that fascinates us. This kind of poetic thinking is proliferating already as people engage it daily through linked media on the world wide web. Our vision of networked, improvised, multi-modal visual music, or liquid architecture or dynamic poetry, is just one way of talking about a globally shared, lucid dream. Above all, it is this dream of dreaming in the spaces that we share, that drives and informs our research. While we are not yet there, we can see it clearly on the horizon.