ENT3320-E946 Tech Production SP2020
In this technical production course, students will collaborate on a team to create an immersive VR environment with interactive sound and music. Our goal will be an expressive VR experience with interactive audio rather than simply a game with fixed sound files.
Emphasis will be on sound and music within VR, and not sound that merely “accompanies” a visual world. We’ll consider excerpts from film and periodic readings to better understand the role sound plays in any audio-visual experience. Our soundtracks will become vital components of the virtual experience, and as such we’ll be using tools for real-time music generation alongside those that allow us to shape recorded and environmental sounds, etc.
The theme for this semester’s project will be MEMORY. Together we’ll develop a narrative around how a person’s daily activities can be interrupted and shaped by their memories and their dreams. To do this, we’ll be embedding a real-time music and sound synthesis program called RTcmix inside Unity.
