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Sonic Solar Systems in Motion
Moving 3D geometric music chords, could be represented in Virtual Reality as a world built as a sonic solar system.
In this sonic solar system you could have a sun that radiates its sound on all the planets that circle in orbits around it, the sound that the sun sends out would be the root note of the world geometry chord.
Around this sun would orbit any number of planets that spin in rotation and sonically emit thier own chordal tones that mix in with the sun.
Around the planets could be moons that emit thier own sub tones that mix in with the planets tones, and the sun.
As the suns tone is the root of the chord and the ellipse of it's node has equal front and back values and extends geographically throughout the solar system,its tone intersects all the other tones in the chord.
The planets and moons could have thier own ellipses. These could be long ellipses attached to 2 opposite sides of the spinning spheres, each spinning at a set rate, with the sound facing out from the spheres like a normal, with either two tones, or one tone on, one tone off.
The cycle speed of the spinning planets and the character of the tone of each planet, either two sides of an on/off, or two sides each with a different value,ie A/F#(or any note combination), would make the chord truly dynamic.
Depending on the cycle speed and intervals and the navigational coordinates and proximity of the avatar, the listener could expirience any variety of special effects like fluttering, reverb, phasing, echoeing, or the blending and bleeding of notes within the chord, notes that ordinarily would not fluctuate or change under any other circumstances, but under the influence of this alternate reality, the virtual reality could be expirienced as a whole and dynamically flexable at the same time. I have plans to put in the VRML section, or the model section, an example of this moving geometric chord model complete with midi files, in the near future.
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