Back to the Future and Forward to the Past: Zukunftsmusik and the aesthetics of immersive classical music experience

We showcase relevant aesthetic considerations of an interaction design for immersive experience informed by Zukunftsmusik. The ‘Zukunftsmusiker’ movement emerged at the verge of the 20th century and intends to encompass a holistic experience incorporating the active participation of all senses with its corresponding action. Amongst other features, we highlight aspects related to diegesis, agency, and attention centring of the visual and auditory field by examining two renditions of The Ravens , a 3D 360-degrees guided experience as well as a 6-degrees-of-freedom multi-view experience of the eponymous piano composition by the first author. With their design rationale of participatory experience, these renditions aim to set off a renewed technological consideration of the Zukunftsmusik paradigm. Ultimately, this paradigm may reach out towards an audience demographic that was previously mostly unknown in contemporary music: The user.

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Maria Kallionpää

Hans-Peter Gasselseder

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 112-119

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[0001]Hong Kong Baptist University

Department of Music

Hong Kong

[0002]Aalborg University

Dept. of Communication & Psychology

Aalborg, Denmark

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.20

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

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Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] J BrunerL Postman 1949 On the perception of incongruity. A paradigm Journal of Personality 18 206 223

[2] J Chadabe 1996 The History of Electronic Music as a Reflection of Structural Paradigms Leonardo Music Journal 6 The MIT Press

[3] J DecetyJ Grèzes 2006 The power of simulation Brain Research 1079 4 14

[4] N Engelsted 2017 Catching up with Aristotle: A journey in quest of general psychology Springer New York, NY

[5] H. P Gasselseder 2015 The Role of Agency in Ludoacoustic Immersion. Experiencing Recorded Sound and Music in Situational Context AM’15: Proceedings of the Audio Mostly 2015 on Interaction with Sound ACM New York, NY

[6] H. P Gasselseder 2016 What You Hear is Where You Are Is What I Hear. Optimising Immersive Experiences for Interindividual Differences EVA London 2016 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS London, UK 61 69

[7] H. P Gasselseder 2020 Guided 360 degrees version of “The Ravens” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBOU6Vas6Bo 17 March 2020

[8] H. P GasselsederM Kallionpää 2019 Beyond the Audience Seat: The Recording and Production of Immersive Opera and Interactive Concerto Programmes for VR Experiences EVA London 2019 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS London, UK 8–11 July 2019 409 416

[9] D Gozli 2018 Experimental Psychology and Human Agency Springer Cham, CH

[10] E Hanslick 1902 Vom Musikalisch-Schönen Ein Beitrag zur Revision der Ästhetik der Tonkunst. Breitkopf und Härtel Leipzig, DE

[11] W Jauk 2012 Medien der Erkenntnis und Gestaltung von Erlebniswelten zwischen embodiments und Metaphern B Enders Die Metapher als Medium des Musikverstehens Universität Osnabrück Osnabrück, DE 173 186

[12] M Jeannerod 1997 The Cognitive Neuroscience of Action Blackwell Oxford, UK

[13] M Kallionpää 2014 Beyond the Piano: The Super Instrument. Widening the Instrumental Capacities in the Context of the Piano Music of the 21st Century. Doctoral dissertation University of Oxford Oxford

[14] M KallionpääA ChamberlainH.P Gasselseder 2018 Under Construction: Contemporary Opera in the Crossroads Between New Aesthetics, Techniques, and Technologies Audio Mostly 2018 Wrexham, UK 12-14 September 2018

[15] Kandao 2018 QooCam 360° camera https://www.kandaovr.com/qoocam 16 March 2020

[16] Kodak 2015 Kodak SP360-4K 360° 3D Camera https://kodakpixpro.com/Europe/cameras/vrcamera/sp3604k 16 March 2020

[17] M Leman 2010 Music, Gesture, and the Formation of Embodied Meaning R. I GodøyM Leman Musical Gestures Routledge New York, NY 126 153

[18] F Nietzsche 1888 2012 Der Fall Wagner Giorgio ColliMazzino Montinari Walter de Gruyter Berlin, DE

[19] L Russolo 1913 The Art of Noises http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/noises.html 17 March 2020

[20] A Schoenberg 1950 Style and Idea Philosophical Library, INC New York, NY

[21] R Schumann 1854 1965 Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker Reclam Leipzig, DE

[22] Soundfield 2008 SPS 200 Ambisonics array https://www.soundfield.com/-/products/sps200 16 March 2020

[23] R Wagner 1850 Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft Wigand Leipzig, DE

[24] Yi 2017 Yi 360 360° camera https://www.yitechnology.com.sg/yi-360-vr-camera 16 March 2020

[25] Zoom 2011 H2n Audio field recorder https://www.zoom.co.jp/products/handy-recorder/h2n-handy-recorder 16 March 2020

[26] Zylia 2018 Zylia ZM-1d Ambisonics Microphone Array http://www.zylia.co/zylia-pro.html 16 March 2020