Royal College of Music Performance Laboratory

我们正在请求创意研究能力基金的支持，以使皇家音乐学院的开创性表演模拟器设施成为一个全面的双链表演实验室的重大升级和扩展。2011年推出的表演模拟器使用视频模拟技术，使音乐家能够在现实世界的动态表演条件下练习表演。模拟器为RCM的绩效科学中心开展的世界领先的研究提供了基础，并已被创意和文化经济的利益相关者用作培训和发展空间。然而，就目前的形式而言，性能模拟器在容量和技术方面已经达到了极限。它的缺点——在规模、可及性和技术设置上——现在限制了新研究的增长，也限制了在平行的公共绩效领域工作的人进一步扩大使用范围。我们设想了一个升级和扩建计划，将释放该设施的全部潜力，在表演艺术内外的行业应用和研究合作，这将在发展我们的商业化和知识产权方面发挥关键作用。具体来说，我们正在寻求[1]在RCM的表演工作室中创建一个新的，更大的表演实验室设施，这是一个可容纳110个容量的黑匣子，完全可访问的工作室空间，位于学院新完成的扩建部分；[2]将现有的性能模拟器空间升级为并行的性能实验室，以便同时进行小型和大型性能小组的操作；[3]审查、开发和安装实验室空间的新模拟和性能捕获软件；及[4]测试及实施扩建后的双址性能实验室设施。这些进步将使RCM能够扩大其在培训音乐家方面的作用，以满足英国创意和文化经济不断变化的需求，促进跨越心理学，生理学，感知，运动学，教育学和技术增强体验式学习的开创性研究，并与来自艺术，商业，体育，医学，教育和创意实践的表演者合作，重新考虑他们如何为自己的职业做准备和表演。所有这些都有助于提高生产力和可持续绩效的生态系统。

We are requesting support from the Creative Research Capability Fund to enable a major upgrade and expansion of the Royal College of Music's pioneering Performance Simulator facility into a comprehensive dual-strand Performance Laboratory. Launched in 2011, the Performance Simulator uses video simulation techniques to enable musicians to practise performing in real-world, dynamic performance conditions. The Simulator provides the foundations for world-leading research undertaken by the RCM's Centre for Performance Science and has been used as a training and development space by stakeholders across the creative and cultural economy. In its current form, however, the Performance Simulator has been pushed to its limit in terms of capacity and technology. Its shortcomings - in size, accessibility and technological set-up - are now restricting growth for new research and further expansion for use by those working in parallel public performance domains. We envisage a programme of upgrade and expansion that will unleash the facility's full potential for industry use and research collaboration, both within and beyond the performing arts, and which will play a key role in developing our profile in commercialisation and IP. Specifically, we are seeking [1] To create a new, much larger Performance Laboratory facility in the RCM's Performance Studio, a 110-capacity black-box fully-accessible studio space housed in the College's newly-completed extension; [2] To upgrade the existing Performance Simulator space to a parallel Performance Laboratory allowing for simultaneous operation with small and large performance groups; [3] To review, develop and install in both Laboratory spaces new simulation and performance capture software; and [4] To test and implement the expanded dual-site Performance Laboratory facility. These advances will allow the RCM to expand its role in training musicians to meet the ever-changing demands of the UK's creative and cultural economy, foster pioneering research cutting across psychology, physiology, perception, kinematics, pedagogy and technology-enhanced experiential learning, and engage with performers from across the arts, business, sport, medicine, education and creative practices to reconsider how they prepare for and perform in their professions, all contributing to more productive and sustainable performance ecosystems.