Shelly Knotts

MOO-SiC is a live coded musical performance, which will take place in a text-based virtual reality environment built in the audio-programming language SuperCollider. The virtual space will be described in text, as will actions by performers or audience members in the space. Live and remote audience members will be able to interact in the text based VR environment.
The text based VR, called a MOO, was invented in the 1990s; it consumes few resources and can be made to work with screen readers. As a low-resource project, it is a degrowth tele presence, accessible to users of older hardware, people with slow connections and self- hosters.
The use of text description creates a more detailed and robust improvisatory environment than the limited visual language of graphical VR and the metaverse. Text descriptions create images in the viewer’s minds, (rather than as a prompt to a generative AI) and engage imagination and creativity. The music will be a live-generated sound track to the virtual space.

Welcome to this year’s Hybrid Music Lab: our first edition featuring a shared exhibition space alongside demos, performances, and installations. Here, everything is tangible, hands-on, and open to exploration.

Dive in, experiment and experience music, sound and technology coming together in an inspiring, playful environment of discovery and collaboration.