Birth of a Bird
Interactive music experience in virtual reality
How it feels like to be inside a musical composition?
A New Level of Musical Immersion
What if you could jump inside of a song? What if you could touch sound? What if instruments in musical compositions came to life? Birth of a Bird transports the user into the middle of the composition. They hear the sounds move around them. They can touch the sounds, hold them in their hand, bring them to their ear to hear new details, or bring them together to create new duets, changing the whole mood of the piece. Birth of a Bird allows us to experience music the way that wasn't possible before.
Interactive music
In Birth of a Bird, the sounds react to your actions. Each instrument is represented as a floating light. If you caress those lights tenderly, the music they make also gets more tender. But if you treat them aggressively, the music becomes more intense. Virtual Reality enables you to truly interact with music. Every experience will be different. Though it's not a game, there's an element of exploration, as you can find new songs if you listen closely and follow the clues the sounds provide...
Coming in 2023
Birth of a Bird is being developed in collaboration with Helsinki XR Center, a leading developer hub for XR applications in Finland. At the moment it's in development phase. It had its first public demo in MatchXR 2022, where it received some very good feedback. Final piece will be published in 4th quarter of 2023.
