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Designer : Alain Bonardi
Assistant : Nathalie Dazin
The Wanderer
As a tribute to Schubert's famous piano
piece, this interactive terminal considers the spectator/user as a Wanderer.
He/she becomes the one to wander in an unknown space, sharing his mind
between self-consciousness and diversion, hesitating to dive into the
graphic and sonic worlds proposed. In every musical and visual landscape,
the user can either grasp 3D objects that can be handled modifying therefore
sounds or just attend the scene, without any active intervention. As
in Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie, there are 4 movements-spaces-variations,
"staging" 3D objects, textures, sounds, texts and videos.
With headphones on the ears (3D sound spatialization),
the user may wander and navigate through this open space. All 3D objects
may be moved, shifted, stretched so that it modifies corresponding sounds.
First moment : Introduction
In that central scene, the spectator may select
one of the objects corresponding to other scenes, and also follow moving
objects and modify them. A text by Thomas Mann (from the beginning of
The Magic Mountain) is read.
sound extract (120 Ko)
Second moment : le far
This scene uses textures from South America
clothes and the symbol of the ring (both centre and peripheral).
sound extract (112 Ko)
Third moment : tao
For the Wanderer, the question of the origine
is a very important one. Chinese texts from the Tao are used.
sound extract (200 Ko)
Fourth
moment : evidence
Women and alterity.
Biography
of the authors
Alain Bonardi
Born in 1966, Alain Bonardi defines
himself as an"opera designer". He has studied musical composition
with Michel Philippot and Emmanuel Nunes, in parallel with engineer
studies. His works, in relationship with lyrical art, sometimes concern
musical composition (chamber opera Du/Tri-plicata with the chinese
playwright ChunYan Ning, 1998, digital interactive opera Comme cela
vous chante produced during the "Villette Numérique" festival
in september 2002), sometimes scenography (interactive scenography of
Norma by Bellini, production in 2001 with singers belonging to
Paris National Opera) or new media (CD-ROM opera Virtualis still in
process). In all these projects, he is interested in human computer
dialogue in artistic context. He is a senior lecturer at the Image,
Art and Technology Department of Paris 8 University.
Nathalie
Dazin
In parallel with computer engineering,
Nathalie Dazin has
been completing her musical education since 1981 at the Serge Rachmaninov
Conservatoire and the Schola Cantorum in Paris. She is particulary interested
in composition and sound processing. She has Web activities in the framework
of artistic promotion and site creation. From now on she is dealing
with interactive scenographies in the field of arts and culture. She
took part in several projects : an interactive scenography of Norma
by Bellini (2001), the digital interactive opera Comme cela vous
chante with the Image, Art and Technology Department of Paris 8
University, and a multimedia performance named Le Minotaure to
come next december in Paris.
Technical Requirements
The Wanderer Fantasie content is a standalone
application running permanently on a Macintosh (contained in a CD-ROM).
It is using the Alma software player. The installation
requires :
-1 Macintosh PowerMac G4, with a good graphic card (GeForce 4 for instance),
RAM at least 512 M, hard disk at least 40 Go, with keyboard and mouse.
-2 Headphones.
Previous and
future exhibitions
-1 IRCAM, Paris, Resonances days, october 14-20,
2002
-2 "Portées à l'Ecran" Festival, Paris, december
7-9, 2002
Contact
Alain Bonardi alain.bonardi@wanadoo.fr
Nathalie Dazin nathalie@computeropera.com
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