Category: Holodeck

The HoloDeck Distributed Music Concert

Update: Video of the concert Finale is now available!

Where to watch the April 19th 2018 HoloDeck concert 

You can follow the HoloDeck live event through this links:

NYU Steinhardt Live Feed from Loewe 

Binaural 360-Video Dolan Recording Studio

Binaural 360-Video Frederick Loewe Theatre

The NYU Immersive Audio Group and Future Reality lab present the first HoloDeck concert. This unique event explores the future of distributed musical connections for mixed reality setting. The HoloDeck Concert is a novel experimental distributed music setting where musicians and dancers are virtually connected from different studios to a theatre stage, through a dedicated network. OptiTrack Motion Tracking technology will render and stream in real time the dancers’ avatars to live stage performers.  

Musical Program:

  1. Blue in Green – Piano & Trumpet
    Bill Evans 
  2. Where do You Start – Double Bass & Piano
    Johnny Mandel
  3. Nocturne in C-sharp minor – Violin, Piano, Dancer
    Frederic Chopin
  4. When I fall in love  – Piano & Dancer
    Victor Young
  5. Groove on Drums – Drums, Percussions, Dancers
    Improvisation
  6. Elephants – Saxophone & Piano
    Timo Vollbrecht
  7. Summertime – Jazz Quartet, Dancers
    George Gershwin
  8. Hungarian Dance No.5 – Violin & Piano
    Johannes Brahms
  9. Take the A Train  – Jazz Quartet, Dancers
    Billy Strayhorn

Tom Beyer, Director
Agnieszka Roginska, Music and Audio Research Lab
Ken Perlin, Future Reality Lab
Deborah Damast, Dance Director

Musicians

David Baylies…….…………Trumpet
Tom Beyer…….Drums & Percussion
Sungrae Kim….Drums & Percussion
Sungsoo Kim………………….Piano
Marcelo Maccagnan……Double Bass
Sienna Leigh Peck……………Violin
Agnieszka Roginska…………..Piano
Noah Rott…………………..….Piano
Timo Vollbrecht…………Saxophone

Dancers

Deborah Damast
Daria Fitzgerald
Jessa Rose
Danielle Staropoli
Kim Wojcieszek

Technical Team

Audio Engineering: 
Jen-Chun Chao
Dennis Dembeck
Lisa Groom
Michael Ikonomidis
Marta Olko
Jonathan Quiñones
Makan Taghavi

Audio Streaming: 
David Baylies
Michael Hagen
Scott Murakami

Dance Tech: 
Connor DeFanti
Rose Generoso
Andrea Genovese
Tatiana Turin

Video:
Ian Anderson
Corinne Brenner
Jaye Sosa
Sripathi Sridar
Natalie Wu
Celia Yang
Gabriel Zalles