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Brief

Expand the mediation of Danish sound art on the web.

Desciption

Metroplex is a web based virtual sound walk under the theme of 'the city as organism'. Selected composers and sound artists are invited to produce collections of sounds which present their own relation to the theme.

The listening space consists of a free-floating labyrinth structure which, each time it is visited, regenerates itself in such a way that its forms and combinations of sounds are new. The visitor is sent on a journey of exploration in a non-linear sound universe without a fixed time frame, in which he/she/they can either move about freely or pause in order to delve more deeply into a particular sound.

Concept

Metroplex is intended as a new space for web-based sound experiences; a space that allows for a restful, in depth immersion that is otherwise difficult to find on the internet.

Process

The idea was conceived in 2007 during my exchange scholarship at Emily Carr in Vancouver and was since developed in collaboration with Jakob Weigand Goetz.

Credits

Metroplex was developed with support from The Heritage Agency of Denmark and KODA (Danish society that administers Danish and international copyrights for composers, songwriters and music publishers). It was first launched in December 2008 as a pilot project for the web-based mediation of art-music and sound-art across genres and has since been subject to a number of updates.

All rights on materials that are contained in Metroplex belong to the respective artists.

Thanks

A big thanks to sound artists: Bent Sørensen, Jakob Weigand Goetz, Søren Lyngsø (Vectral), Rune Søchting and Rudiger Mayer (updated november 2009).

Tech

The labyrinth mesh and tubes are procedurally generated every time a visitor enters a Metroplex city. The project was realised in Unity.