Sound Garden

The Sound Garden is a Virtual Generative Musical System hosted on a simulator in the Open Simulator Grid (OSGrid). Here disparate sounds are composed and connected into a continuous Immersive Musical Experience. It encourages divergent play and allows the user to anticipate, blur and appreciate the boundaries of sound, music and noise. It allows connection to others by interacting in a Virtual Space through the language of Music. By being Virtual, an avatar is able to interact with music by touching sound loops, and manipulating them, and moving them around the three dimensional space. They can also introduce their own sounds to the musical landscape. It is an innovation to how music is composed, generated, recorded and appreciated in the Metaverse. The sounds range from the calls of frogs, waves of the sea, and a glacier groaning, to the sounds of a classical flute, and a jaw harp, and the generated sounds of a synthesiser that all connect into music that can border on noise.