Hybrid Venue: From Network Audio to Future Gigs

混合场地：从网络音频到未来演出

• 批准号: AH/Y006054/1
• 负责人: Atau Tanaka
• 金额: $ 15.65万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY006054%2F1
• 关键词: Hybrid; Venue; Network; Audio; Future

Hybrid Venue is an engagement project that builds on the research insights gained in the AHRC UK-US project, Hybrid Live. It is a collaboration between Goldsmiths and Iklectik Art Labs in London with CCRMA at Stanford University in California. The project will consolidate advanced network audio streaming technology, JackTrip developed at CCRMA with creative audiovisual interactions created at Goldsmiths to enable independent live music venues like Iklectik to expand their offer in a rapidly changing cultural sector. Multiple factors, including new technologies, the COVID pandemic, and eco-crisis have had an indelible impact on the dynamics of live music and electronic audiovisual arts. COVID has made some audience agoraphobic whilst commercial streaming platforms offer an endless catalogue to 'Netflix 'n chill' at home. Touring artists are increasingly conscious of their carbon footprint and are more and more reluctant to fly to gigs. Meanwhile disruptive technologies like NFT have infiltrated the visual arts world with speculation. How do these factors combine to reshape the dynamics of live music and electronic visual arts?Independent arts organizations need to continuously engage with, and expand their audiences. Whilst a physical venue enables local communities to come together, a network presence unlocks access to new audiences at a global scale. High quality streaming may alleviate air travel for international artists but also opens up new possibilities for multiple artists from different countries to perform together for an audience in a third location. The original Hybrid Live project carried out research configuring network audio and computer vision and graphics technologies to create new performance experiences for artist and audience alike. The new Hybrid Venue project will consolidate these advancements and explore a streaming, publication, and membership eco-system to create a prototype platform that can power the venue and label of the future. The Hybrid Venue platform will consist of three key components. High quality, low latency network audio will allow immersive audio to be streamed to remote audiences, replicating the spatial sensation of a physical venue. Realtime computer vision, 3D graphics and audio reactive visuals will make interactive visuals that can be engaging as audio/visual art and also be informative in the way that album cover artwork and gig flyers once were in the print era and material epoque. A membership subscription offer exploring the use of blockchain technology will facilitate an economic model where audience buy tickets, artists are paid, and venues earn revenue on a secure, transparent distributed ledger. These three components come together to enable Iklectik to be the test case for a hybrid venue of the future: a local gig space, an international streaming channel, and a new kind of 'record label' publishing interactive a/v works.

Hybrid Venue 是一个参与项目，建立在 AHRC 英国-美国项目 Hybrid Live 中获得的研究见解的基础上。这是伦敦金史密斯学院和 Iklectik 艺术实验室与加州斯坦福大学 CCRMA 的合作项目。该项目将整合 CCRMA 开发的 JackTrip 先进网络音频流技术与 Goldsmiths 创建的创造性视听互动技术，使 Iklectik 等独立现场音乐场所能够在快速变化的文化领域扩大其服务范围。新技术、新冠疫情和生态危机等多种因素对现场音乐和电子视听艺术的动态产生了不可磨灭的影响。新冠疫情让一些观众产生了广场恐惧症，而商业流媒体平台则提供了无穷无尽的目录，让您可以在家中“放松”Netflix。巡演艺术家越来越意识到自己的碳足迹，并且越来越不愿意乘坐飞机去演出。与此同时，像 NFT 这样的颠覆性技术已经通过投机渗透到视觉艺术世界。这些因素如何结合起来重塑现场音乐和电子视觉艺术的动态？独立艺术组织需要不断地吸引并扩大观众。虽然实体场所使当地社区能够聚集在一起，但网络存在可以在全球范围内接触到新的受众。高质量的流媒体可以减轻国际艺术家的航空旅行，但也为来自不同国家的多名艺术家在第三地点为观众一起表演提供了新的可能性。最初的 Hybrid Live 项目进行了配置网络音频、计算机视觉和图形技术的研究，为艺术家和观众创造新的表演体验。新的混合场馆项目将巩固这些进步，并探索流媒体、出版和会员生态系统，以创建一个原型平台，为未来的场馆和品牌提供动力。混合场地平台将由三个关键组件组成。高质量、低延迟的网络音频将允许将身临其境的音频传输给远程观众，复制物理场地的空间感。实时计算机视觉、3D 图形和音频反应视觉效果将打造交互式视觉效果，既可以像音频/视觉艺术一样引人入胜，也可以像印刷时代和物质时代的专辑封面艺术作品和演出传单那样提供信息。探索使用区块链技术的会员订阅服务将促进一种经济模式，观众购买门票，艺术家获得报酬，场馆通过安全、透明的分布式账本赚取收入。这三个组成部分结合在一起，使 Iklectik 成为未来混合场所的测试案例：本地演出空间、国际流媒体频道以及发布交互式影音作品的新型“唱片公司”。