Stolen Couch Games (stolencouchgames.com): ”Chime Multiplayer was created by students of the Utrecht School of the Arts for Zoë Mode under supervision of Martin de Ronde and René Derks. // We would like to thank: Martin de Ronde, Martien, Peerdeman, Wendy Draaijer and Marinka Copier for giving us such an awesome assignment, Ard Bonewald for his game changing feedback and support, Dutch Game Garden for promoting our game at Indigo & NLGD (Festival Of Games), all the hundreds of testers who gave us their feedback, Zoë Mode for lending us their wonderful IP.”

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Dianne Verdonk (Cello) & Rutger Muller (Ableton Live) – Improvisation 13 January 2010 by  rutgermuller

Review by Digitale Kunst Review

DUTCH: “Blended en augmented reality
Onze werkelijkheid is steeds meer een mengsel van het fysieke en het virtuele (blended) en wordt daar rijker van (augmented). Dat lieten twee studenten, Rutger Muller (laptop) en Dianne Verdonk (celliste) in hun performance horen. Zij hielden de zaal in de greep met een dialoog tussen laptop en een cello.

De mix van analoog en digitaal werd versterkt door in de compositie muzikaal idioom uit de ‘oude’ wereld her te gebruiken: klezmerachtige intervallen en ritmes. Was dit postmoderne ironie of een blijk van de hedendaagse nostalgie die we zo in de architectuur aantreffen?”

ENGLISH: “Blended and augmented reality
Our reality is increasingly a mixture of physical and virtual (blended) and gets enriched by that (augmented). This is what two students, Rutger Muller (laptop) and Dianne Verdonk (cello) showed with their performance. They placed the audience in the middle of a dialogue between laptop and a cello.

The mix of analog and digital composition was reinforced by the musical idiom of the “old” world re-used: klezmer-like rhythms and intervals. Was this postmodern irony or a sign of nostalgia today as we find in the architecture? “

Image: ‘Corona of sun during eclipse in 1900′ – copyright unknown – source: smithsonian institute