Kaleidoscopic mandalas pulse to the beat. Melodies draw colorful trails across the sky as the visitor moves through the environment, discovering new visions at every turn of the head. Fakespace Music implemented technology, that provides artists and entertainers with tools for incorporating VR into creative works, for this special exhibition. Fakespace Music, an operating group within Fakespace, Inc., provides the Soundsculpt Toolkit to producers and artists in traditional music and emerging electronic entertainment markets. The Soundsculpt Toolkit uses cues extracted from recorded music to create geometry and control object behaviors within a virtual world.
Virtual objects respond in sync with the music, creating a rich, multi-sensory experience.
It's like nothing ever seen before, a music video where the user is completely immersed and free to explore a world generated by the music. The seed for music-based VR came several years back when Mark Bolas was developing prototypes for VR research under contract with NASA Ames Research Center. There he was visited by his brother Niko, a record producer who has worked with such diverse musicians as Neil Young and the Circle Jerks. Experience Music Project, Seattle's forthcoming interactive music museum, will open at Seattle Center in 1999. Inc. Experience Music Project is a trademark of Experience Music Project.