Live from the Other Side of Nowhere: Contemplating Musical Performance in an Age of Virtual Reality

by Matt Brennan and Sam Cleeve

In recent years VR has become an increasingly prevalent platform for musical performance-Bj rk, U2, Gorillaz, and even the LA Philharmonic all having taken to the virtual stage. These virtual encounters profoundly disrupt assumptions long held to be true of live music, undermining the necessity of physical and temporal co-presence, exploding our expectations of performance spaces, opening up new possibilities for performance involving avatars,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501346350
• ISBN13: 9781501346354
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages