Towards a Framework for Composition Design for Music-Led Virtual Reality Experiences
Zach Buckley, Kristin Carlson · 2019
Virtual reality is an exciting new medium for artists and content creators, including composers. The ease of content delivery coupled with the capacity for immersive sound diffusion makes VR of particular interest to composers. However, a framework would be useful to support the composition and designing of music-led virtual reality experiences. This paper begins that process by exploring perspectives such as acoustic ecology, the phenomenology of embodiment, affordances and discoverability in design, instrument design, the techno-somatic dimension, and 20thcentury aleotoric compositional poetics that can help to establish a theoretical framework for composing engaging sonic experiences in virtual environments.