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The Online Orchestra: Connecting Remote Communities through Music (Fit to connected communities and design highlight notice)

在线管弦乐队：通过音乐连接远程社区（适合连接的社区并设计亮点通知）

基本信息

批准号：
AH/M001482/1
负责人：
Michael Rofe
金额：
$ 20.62万
依托单位：
Falmouth University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FM001482%2F1
关键词：
Online Orchestra Connecting Remote Communities

项目摘要

Participation in ensemble music making has been proven to have wide ranging benefits in the areas of social skills, social capital, community, personal skills, musical skills and health. The UK Government's National Music Plan recognizes these benefits, recommending that 'Children from all backgrounds and every part of England should have the opportunity...to make music with others'. Yet in parts of the country such as Cornwall, where many people live in geographically remote communities, accessing group music making opportunities is often practically difficult: either there are not enough musicians living in one place, or the time and expense of travel prevents regular participation.The Online Orchestra asks how we can use burgeoning network technologies and creative approaches to composition to give people in remote communities access to the recognized benefits of ensemble music making.There have been a range of precedent projects in online performance, but these have tended to focus on the development of technical tools to enable the performance of pre-existent music, resulting in either: (a) the use of complex or proprietary equipment or approaches (such as Janet), unavailable outside of specialist institutions; or (b) solutions wherein latency, low quality audio/visual experience or the sense of disconnection mean many of the benefits of traditional group music making are diminished.At the heart of The Online Orchestra is the concept of Experience Design: our aim is to design an online environment that enables an experience analogous to that of playing in a traditional orchestra, thus preserving the benefits of traditional group music making. The research team, which includes performers, composers, conductors, social scientists, network designs, audio engineers, and musicologists, asks 'what can we do differently in order to make online performance a meaningful musical experience?'. We will include amateur musicians from Cornwall within the research team, as we co-design our online environment, and we will confine ourselves to the use of off-the-shelf equipment in order to ensure the repeatability of our work upon completion of the project.The project will begin with a four-month development phase, involving all members of the team, as we design, test, evaluate, and re-design our approach. Through this phase, we will focus on preserving within our online environment three key aspects of traditional ensemble performance: (1) the sense of relationship between self, section and full group; (2) the sense of immersion, sonically and in terms of group responsibility; and (3) the sense of interaction with other performers, the conductor and the audience. We will use Vconect technology to enable the online environment: a low-latency, high-quality audio-visual environment.Phase two of the project will involve composers from the research team writing a series of original works designed specifically for our online environment. Composers will thus research ways of engaging creatively in their music with issues of latency and remoteness. Phase three will be run in collaboration with The Philharmonia Orchestra and the Cornwall Music Hub, as we rehearse and realise the premiere performance by the Online Orchestra, to form part of the Philharmonia's Universe of Sound installation in Truro, July 2015.In phase four, we will develop, as proof of concept, a website that will contain a fully-functional, limited-capacity prototype console to access Vconect, which, with further investment, will be scalable to enable communities around the UK, and the world, to form their own online orchestras. Knowledge from the project will be disseminated by means of journal articles, conference papers, magazine articles and web pages, and to broader users through our partners: the Philharmonia are committed to several repeat performances using the prototype; we will also work with the network of Hubs to spread the impact of our work.

参与合奏音乐制作已被证明在社会技能，社会资本，社区，个人技能，音乐技能和健康领域有广泛的好处。英国政府的国家音乐计划认识到这些好处，建议“来自各种背景和英格兰各地的儿童都应该有机会......用别人的音乐来创作。然而，在康沃尔等国家的部分地区，许多人居住在地理上偏远的社区，获得团体音乐制作机会实际上往往很困难：要么是没有足够的音乐家住在一个地方，或者旅行的时间和费用阻碍了经常性的参与。在线管弦乐队询问我们如何使用新兴的网络技术和创造性的作曲方法，让偏远社区的人们能够接触到在网上表演方面有一系列先例项目，但这些项目往往侧重于开发技术工具，使人们能够表演预先存在的音乐，结果是：（a）使用复杂或专有的设备或方法，（如珍妮特），在专科机构之外无法获得;或（B）其中延迟，低质量音频/视觉体验或断开的感觉意味着传统团体音乐制作的许多好处都被削弱了。管弦乐队是体验设计的概念：我们的目标是设计一个在线环境，使体验类似于在传统管弦乐队演奏，从而保留传统团体音乐制作的好处。研究团队包括表演者、作曲家、指挥家、社会科学家、网络设计师、音频工程师和音乐学家，他们提出了这样一个问题：“为了使在线表演成为一种有意义的音乐体验，我们可以做些什么不同的事情？”'.我们将在研究团队中包括来自康沃尔的业余音乐家，因为我们共同设计我们的在线环境，我们将限制自己使用现成的设备，以确保我们的工作在项目完成后的可重复性。该项目将开始四个月的开发阶段，涉及团队的所有成员，因为我们设计，测试，评估和重新设计我们的方法。在这个阶段，我们将专注于在我们的在线环境中保留传统合奏表演的三个关键方面：（1）自我，部分和整个团队之间的关系感;（2）沉浸感，声音和团队责任感;（3）与其他表演者，指挥和观众的互动感。我们将使用Vconect技术来实现在线环境：一个低延迟，高质量的视听环境。该项目的第二阶段将涉及研究团队的作曲家编写一系列专为我们的在线环境设计的原创作品。因此，作曲家将研究如何创造性地参与他们的音乐与延迟和远程的问题。第三阶段将与爱乐乐团和康沃尔音乐中心合作进行，我们将排练并实现在线乐团的首演，以形成2015年7月在特鲁罗的爱乐乐团声音世界装置的一部分。在第四阶段，我们将开发一个网站，作为概念验证，该网站将包含一个功能齐全，容量有限的原型控制台，以访问Vconect，随着进一步的投资，将可扩展，使英国和世界各地的社区，形成自己的在线管弦乐队。该项目的知识将通过期刊文章、会议论文、杂志文章和网页的方式传播，并通过我们的合作伙伴向更广泛的用户传播：爱乐乐团致力于使用原型进行多次重复演出;我们还将与中心网络合作，传播我们工作的影响。