Hermes, K., Harrison, L. and Grunewald, S. 2026. Twinning Fyvie Hall: Audience Data, Generative Organ Performance and Social VR. Society for Music Production Research Conference. Huddersfield 11 Jul - 09 Sep 2026 SMPR.
| Title | Twinning Fyvie Hall: Audience Data, Generative Organ Performance and Social VR |
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| Authors | Hermes, K., Harrison, L. and Grunewald, S. |
| Type | Conference paper |
| Abstract | This paper presents a work-in-progress hybrid performance project that digitally twins Fyvie Hall and its Compton organ at the University of Westminster within the social VR platform VRChat. In the physical hall, the organ plays “itself” via MIDI transmitted over Ethernet to the organ’s control system. The MIDI stream is generated by a Max patch that treats audience behaviour in the room (for example, headcount or movement) as parameters in a generative performance system. The same data drive a sampler instrument, built from recorded organ material, whose output is spatialised in a VRChat reconstruction of Fyvie Hall using convolution with measured impulse responses of the hall and streamed via OBS to in-world loudspeakers. Audience presence and action are thus continuously translated into musical structure across co-present and virtual spaces. |
| Keywords | Social VR; Digital Twinning; Installation |
| Year | 2026 |
| Conference | Society for Music Production Research Conference |
| Publisher | SMPR |
| Accepted author manuscript |