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SI18.03 - Emergent Opera si18-03-emergent-opera
SI18
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10/05/2022 Ok let's write an opera in 1 week altogether https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/SI18 https://pad.xpub.nl/p/SI18_three https://issue.xpub.nl/18/archive/03 emergent opera.jpg G and E presenting the Opera

Intro

What does it mean?
This week we invite you to make content within a common structure, instead of finding a structure when the contents have already been made! An emergent opera where each property is part of a bigger whole, that comes together in the becoming...

To step out of the traditional model of the opera and use the different features found in opera as tools to make this new model of musical and sound research environment possible.

The emergent opera, practically, still has all the components of a classical opera: overture, act 1, act 2, act 3, the grande finale and of course entracte(s). Yet, those different components do not suffer any kind of linear regime. As a music conductor, you might play those different components, one way, or another, briefly or repeatedly, together or individually… the possibilities are endless. The Overture Atlas is a space in which the opera could be orchestrated… by anyone! The opera, constantly shifting, comes into being with the listeners urge to activate the Overture Atlas. Become a conductor and explore all of its potential.

by Al Nik (Alexandra Nikolova), Carmen Gray, Chaeyoung Kim, Emma Prato, Erica Gargaglione, Francesco Luzzana, Gersande Schellinx, Jian Haake, Kimberley Cosmilla, Miriam Schöb, Mitsa Chaida, Supisara Burapachaisri.

Lot of things going on here:

The Emergent Opera ecosystem is composed of:

  • a web page
  • a web-to-print libretto
  • an instrument
  • an API

The main idea for the website was to provide something to facilitate the listening of the opera. The page fetch the data from the soupboat and uses the informations from the contributions to build something like a libretto.

The website is designed to have a web-to-print version as well. There are some little differences between the two versions, for instance in the printed one there's an index with all the samples listed.

![Printing the booklet](/soupboat/~kamo/static/img/emergent opera 2.jpg)