Stopping Time Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian It was the early 1980s, maybe 1981. Bill had a fellowship type position at the University of Mass in Boston at the Center for Media Development. The university had a full television studio and state of the art audio equipment. About four levels below their …
Going Solo When Bill learned to play the OVC as a solo instrument Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian It was 1979. Bill was performing with Sun Ra’s Arkestra at the SoundScapes Performance Center on West 55th street in Manhattan. The band was doing breakdowns. Players were being called on to solo while …
Seeing color in a HMD What happens when an artist controls the light? Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Light does not have color—and our perception of color is relative. You might not notice this in a brightly lit room but put on a HMD and you can create new colors and manipulate …
The ephemeral nature of color in VR How our eyes’ adaptations affect our art Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Virtual reality artists have the freedom to manipulate viewers’ perceptions of colors by controlling how many colors and what colors are shown at once (check out our earlier blog for more). They also face a …
Inventing colors in VR: How to create colors that don’t exist in the real world Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian In environments where an artist has total control over the optics, colors can be created which do not exist in normal environments. Blues can be created that are more blue; reds that …
Creating colors in a shadow world Virtual reality in the scotopic range Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian When you work in a range too dark for the cones in the eyes to perceive, you can create images that the viewer half sees and half imagines. This is designing in the scotopic range, …
Are alternative realities politically incorrect? Visual music in the age of Trump Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian I have been bored by reality for a long time. I am annoyed that the images presented to my eyes are formed by photons bouncing off surfaces without regard to how they make me feel, …
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Dr. Seuss and Visual Music Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Besides Sun Ra, Dr. Seuss has been one of the biggest influences on the creation of the OVC-3D and on Bill’s approach to music and reality. The Cat in the Hat was released in 1957 when Bill was just learning to read. Back then, …
The perseverance in creativity Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian There are lots of theories out there about creativity from Skinner’s theory that creative people are no more original than a chicken laying an egg to theories of divinely inspired creativity. Here are some of our musings on the topic. Creativity is about …
Mastering the moving target Musicianship in the digital age Back to blog Blog post by Rose Sebastian Back in the 1970s, computers were clunky and the only way to make visual music was with a towering, looming machine. Flash forward to the age of super powerful computers, virtual reality headsets, and software that can create …