Exo Signals

EXO SIGNALS is a project by Davor Vincze (composer/electronic music performer) and Roberto Alonso Trillo (performer/co-creator of MetaBow - a violin bow interface with embedded sensors that sends real-time gestural OSC data through a BLE protocol). Exo signals is an adaptation of the existing project 9 Shards, which was realised last month (May 2024) at the Visualization Research Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University. The project integrates as well the web-app designed by Maurice Oeser for Davor Vincze's opera Freedom Collective.

The goal of Exo Signals is to create an immersive experience using the OTTOsonic system, MetaBow, and the web-app. This project aims to explore sound spatialization connecting sound source movement to the gestures of the MetaBow, and expanding this via the audience's smartphones, which act as a distributed array of speakers. The audience will remain in fixed seating positions while the performer, Dr. Alonso Trillo, moves freely around the space. The sound is captured through a DPA microphone and manipulated live real-time DSP,, yet this relation is a two-way street, as the Metabow controls both the position of the electronic sound in space, as well as the effect parameters that enhance/distort/augment the electronic sound. The smartphones serve as an echo of the sonic utterances present in the electronics distributed in space, thus creating another immersive level.