Examining Future Music Through Vessel Ecosystem
Brief
Workshop 2 establishes the research methodologies and formal processes from the fall as a point of departure for the winter semester. The studio culminates in a presentation of a body of work that is the product of the design practice over the year. The critical approach to research, formal process, and conceptual integration encourages reflection on what it means to work with specific content, methods and media.
Concept
Examining future music through the lens of a futuristic tech corporation;
Vessel is the company of the future selling computer implants to the masses. The ecosystem consists of a proprietary BCI (Brain Computer Interface), and Audio Implant and a Hand Implant – Vessel allows users and corporations to collect and use a maximum amount of data. This ecosystem handles payment, identity, incoming/outgoing audio and converts everything into usable data. By 'merging' with the ecosystems, users adopt the next step of mobile computing. Vessel Ecosystem has maximized data output to create the modern cyborg.
Vessel Ecosystem highlights the impacts bleeding-edge technologies could have on music and artistry. By replacing traditional artists with data and algorithms, Vessel pushes the streaming model to the extreme. Living with an audio implant allows for custom music specific to every individual, or crowdsourcing the data of local vessel users to create community-based music. Both of these new music types translate to personal music, retail music and concert music.
The modern cyborg brings into question the state of artistry, corporate music, privacy and ethical data usage.
Deliverables
Process Book
Graphic Media
Process Book
The final process book combines all of my process, research and writing from the whole year to form an extensive, detailed, well informed body of work. Named 'Examining Future Music Through Vessel Ecosystem', it combines first semesters' 'Music As Control, Class & Function' and 'Neurotechnology & Music Disruption'. The 160 page book is the culmination of my workshop year in an elegantly designed editorial format.
Final Process Book for the Entire Year
Graphic Media
The final display is the visual representation of future music. By branding Vessel Ecosystem, one can step into a world where Vessel exists through the App, Posters, Video, and Process Book. The project was on display at OCAD U's 104th GradEx from May 1-5 2019
Large-Format Posters
Two large-format posters were created to describe Vessel Ecosystem and promote future music
First Semester Posters
The posters from first semester were turned into double-sided cards to accompany the process book
Algorithm Concert Posters
Four posters were created to represent posters one would find to promote an AI Concert
Video
The video explains the four categories of music featured through Vessel Ecosystem
GradEx Display
