An Arcade of Reflection

The composer Bryant O’Hara participates in the Sunday Assembly — a kind of non - religious church building , as it were — in Atlanta , Georgia , where some aspect of the secular service involve music . He wanted to remember of another means to introduce medicine into the communal activeness , and came upon the approximation of a collaborative telecasting game system that uses game controllers to together with build a paper in real time . As he describes it insome extensive corroboration of his process , which also goes into his alternative of programming languages , among other details :

I started call back about this project after attending the first two meetings of Sunday Assembly Atlanta . There were several component of the meeting where we did karaoke , and I was marvel whether there was another form of musical interaction – perhaps even unique to the organization – that we could do as a body . That got me think about new ways of looking at how music could be made and how it could be experience .

This “ shared ” pawn , as he calls it , involves PlayStation controllers , and he has posted the above audio recording of a nigh half - minute execution , which see from the end of last calendar month . The result is a sort of meditative game living room , an arcade of reflection , the steady measure layered with an ever - changing uniting of colorful beeps and bloops , whirry static , and other for the most part percussive sonic elements .