{"id":494,"date":"2014-11-03T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/?p=494"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:46:56","slug":"rur-rossums-universal-replicants-launched-at-omfs-inaugural-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/2014\/11\/03\/rur-rossums-universal-replicants-launched-at-omfs-inaugural-event\/","title":{"rendered":"RUR (Rossum\u2019s Universal Replicants) launched at OMF’s Inaugural Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUR (Rossum\u2019s Universal Replicants)<\/strong>\u00a0by Martin Rieser<\/strong>\u00a0(artist)\u00a0and Andrew Hugill<\/strong> (composer) was the first\u00a0of two mini web operas — both winners of a commissio<\/a>n by the Opera and the Media of the Future<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0project — that were launched at the inaugural OMF\u00a0event<\/a> at Glyndebourne (October 23-24, 2014).<\/div>\n
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Below is an introduction to this work by Rieser<\/a>. The web opera itself\u00a0may be accessed\u00a0online here<\/strong><\/a>: http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/rur\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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A new genre of opera is emerging from digital culture: a new way of telling stories and generating and\u00a0reaching\u00a0audiences. The RUR mini-web opera provides an explosive encounter between new technologies and the long-established tradition of opera. RUR transforms the way in which operatic works are produced and consumed. Audiences are engaged in active participation through Social Media, and the roles of the collaborators in a production are changed.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The operatic experience becomes\u00a0networked, asynchronous and immersive. Built around coordinated social media delivery relating the opera-\u00a0story, it is displayed\u00a0as a series of live newslinks and updates:\u00a0fabricated histories and\u00a0news,\u00a0combined as Twitter feeds, Facebook postings, blog posts and Youtube materials webcast to\u00a0the\u00a0audience\u2019s mobile surfaces and social media interfaces as a media wall.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0As in Karel Capek\u2019s visionary 1920s play, this mini-opera\u00a0explores\u00a0the theme of science used for profit without thought of consequences, where \u2018robots\u2019 are actually organic and\u00a0physically\u00a0indistinguishable replicants of human,\u00a0brought\u00a0up to date in a contemporary setting.\u00a0\u00a0Background\u00a0images are sourced from Youtube or created from\u00a0online\u00a0flickr\u00a0images, which have been animated by the artist through morphing software.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The music contrasts replicant with human voices. In one song, a female replicant sings a blues lament accompanied by \u00a0prepared piano. In another, a replicant chorus chants machine songs against a backdrop of rhythmical synthesiser sounds. By contrast, two extended arias are sung by a soprano and a tenor: a fervent prayer that layers up pianos and glass harmonica, and a lyrical love song with tuned percussion, strings and solo cello.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In future incarnations the authors envisage using theatre-in-the-round through 3D technologies, embedded in a mobile application\u00a0working with devices such as Occulus Rift, putting the audience in the centre of three-dimensional scenography and motion-captured avatars, enacting the opera, as in their earlier work \u201cSecret Garden\u201d (http:\/\/www.martinrieser.com\/Secret Garden.htm<\/a>)<\/div>\n
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Martin Rieser<\/strong><\/div>\n
Visiting Professor<\/div>\n
DCRC UWE<\/div>\n
Pervasive Media Studio<\/div>\n
Watershed\u00a01<\/div>\n
Canons Rd\u00a0Harbourside<\/div>\n
Bristol\u00a0BS1 5TX<\/div>\n
http:\/\/dcrc.org.uk<\/a><\/div>\n
http:\/\/idocs.org<\/a><\/div>\n
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Visiting Research Fellow<\/div>\n
Creative Computing Research<\/div>\n
Bath Spa University<\/div>\n
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Director RESEME<\/div>\n
Digital Art Consultant<\/div>\n
Unit 2C1 Hamilton House<\/div>\n
80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, Avon BS1 3QY<\/div>\n

http:\/\/www.mobileaudience.blogspot.com<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.martinrieser.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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