www.avinteractive.com: A Meyer Sound Constellation system has been installed in a new Performance Laboratory at London’s Royal College of Music (RCM).
The facility combines acoustic simulation technology with the visual graphics engines that drive the latest video games to create two fully immersive performance simulation facilities to aid the training of students.
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What an interesting new technology. This is a really cool tool that I think could be very useful to performers and public speakers of all callings. Having a modular, responsive performance space that is constantly available is, in my opinion, an invaluable tool for building a skillet which is hard to build. The one thing about this tool that is always concerning in this day and age is the offhand comment about how the data from performers' movement, body language, etc will be used for advancing studies in how performance works. My mind jumped immediately to AI model training, and what companies might try and develop with this kind of model, so I’d be interested in learning more about that in this context. Overall, while I’m not sure it will ever replace the communal feeling of performing in person and the experience it provides to the performer and the audience, I think it would be a useful tool for performers when used in the right context, and it’ll be interesting to see how (and if) the technology continues to evolve and spread.
On the surface level this sounds super cool. I think a space like this that is pretty much VR without the headset is a clever way to be applied to the performing arts. I don’t know how accurate the technology is in terms of being able to have panel members and audience respond—but I’m sure that type practice is better than no ability to practice. On a deeper level I think the constellation system is a bit creepy because it’s moving into the world of fake places created by screens to satisfy our needs. Not to make a snowball argument, but the rise (if there is one at all) of digitized rooms that compromise your visual, auditory, etc senses is a bit scary and feels like humans beginning to rely on technology to substitute the real world. For theatrical purposes I wonder if they will perform in the box with an audience with like a digital set and audio coming from all around which would be neat but definitely not something I’d personally be on board with.
I really hadn't considered the complete gamification of the audition industry in recent years. This simulation technology is really interesting to me. The use of the unreal engine, which is typically a game engine, is symbolic of how the audition process has become for students in theater. For performers and theater. I think that the Meyers sound constellation system is a really cool and unique technology, and I'm pretty sure that CMU actually has a constellation system set up in the Chosky; I just took a tour of it with the sound crew. I think that it's really interesting to create immersive audio experiences like that, and I'm always looking for more ways to immerse an audience in my production design.I think that use of the unreal engine could be really helpful in lighting design work for more complex pre-visualization as it has better rendering than a lot of the Previs software that is built into boards. I think that software like the unreal engine should be built into more equipment for lighting.
I first clicked on this article because I was really curious about what it was even talking about. when I read the simulation room I was like what do you mean? Now that I saw what it was, I'm so impressed! As someone who used to be doing vocal performance all of the time in high school, this room would have been a lifesaver. There is genuinely nothing comparable to standing in front of people and singing, it is something that takes so much of my heart and soul and I think so many other performers heart and soul, that it would have been amazing to be able to practice in front of actual conditions that were like an audition. Now I want to point out the Royal College of Music is incredibly lucky to have this space, and I cannot imagine how much it cost for them to make this. thing as they are the Royal College of Music they definitely have got the funding to do so. Singing in front of people is really scary and I think this simulation room could help with that, but I don't think things will ever be the same. As I said earlier there is nothing like singing in front of people, and even a simulation isn't exactly the same.
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