Quantity of Presence: Beyond Person, Number, and Pronouns

摘要: Alternative non-immersive perspectives enable new paradigms of perception, especially in the context frames-of-reference for musical audition and groupware. MAW, acronymic multidimensional audio windows, is an application manipulating sound sources sinks virtual rooms, featuring exocentric graphical interface driving egocentric backend. Listening to presented such a spatial fashion as different from conventional stereo mixes sculpture painting. Schizophrenic existence suggests sonic (analytic) cubism, presenting multiple acoustic simultaneously. Clusters can be used hierarchically organize mixels, [sound] mixing elements. New interaction modalities are enabled by this sort perceptual aggression liquid perspective. In particular, concerts may “broken down” individuals groups.