Muniverse

Interactive Musical Metropolitan

Kenny Kim
MDes Mediums 2023
Nix Liu Xin
MDes Mediums 2023
Jason Leo
MDes Mediums 2023
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1 Making of the Muniverse

Cultural production in the third millennium is totally flat. The information we make and share travels through media that lack hierarchy or centrality. There is no principal authority, no recognized arbitrator, and no centralized archive. There is no perspective, no yesterday, and no tomorrow. Flatness has neither a limit, nor a horizon. It has permanently changed our relationship with time and space. As a contemporary metaphor, flatness describes how the invention of the Internet has restructured global society. Flatness argues everything is the same everywhere. Nowness argues that it is the same time everywhere.

The repetition in music can be metaphorically compared to the repetitive architectural elements in a city, and as we write a song, we are exploiting the visualization of a Muniverse.

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2 Non-correlational projection mapping
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3 Music user interface
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4 Flatness and nowness
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5 Projection mapping study