Cyberdream VR: Visualizing Rave Music and Vaporwave in Virtual Reality

Jonathan Rex Weinel

doi:10.1145/3356590.3356637

Cyberdream VR: Visualizing Rave Music and Vaporwave in Virtual Reality

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Abstract

Cyberdream VR is a short artistic virtual reality (VR) experience, which is based on the concept of visualizing the imaginative worlds suggested by rave music and vaporwave as symbolic, spatial, virtual environments. The piece is conceptualized as a virtual hallucination through the broken techno-utopias of cyberspace. Aesthetically, the work adapts the forms of 1990s VJ performance, demoscene animations, and the visual language of rave fliers from this era, constructing these forms as virtual spaces that the user can enter into through VR. Drawing upon the Internet-borne music subculture vaporwave, the piece also deconstructs the visual language of 1990s technoutopian computer culture. By transporting the user into the imaginative worlds suggested by rave music and vaporwave, Cyberdream VR more broadly indicates a possible approach to visualizing music that prioritizes symbolic representation. In the future, this approach could be applied for other types of music and yield new transformative approaches to music visualization that may eventually be automated.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th International Audio Mostly Conference : A Journey in Sound, AM 2019
Number of pages	5
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	18 Sept 2019
Pages	277-281
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450372978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3356590.3356637
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	Audio Mostly - University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Duration: 18 Sept 2019 → 20 Sept 2019 https://audiomostly.com/2019/

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Conference	Audio Mostly
Location	University of Nottingham
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Nottingham
Period	18/09/2019 → 20/09/2019
Internet address	https://audiomostly.com/2019/

Keywords

Audio-visual performance
Computer art
Computer culture
Counterculture
Cybernetics
Cyberpunk
Demoscene
Lissajous figures
Music visualization
Rave music
VJ
Vaporwave
Virtual reality
Visual music

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