Polian spent the last four seasons as the head coach at Nevada, but the two mutually agreed to part ways at season’s end paving the way for his return to Notre Dame. Last May, Elsewhere rebuilt their massive warehouse space in Minecraft and invited thousands of audience avatars to come party in their digital space.The Notre Dame assistant coach carousel continued on Friday with news breaking that Notre Dame was bringing back former assistant Brian Polian to coach the Irish special teams.
Since then, they’ve been engaging their community remotely. Like the rest of the live music industry, Elsewhere shut its physical doors in March. The potential of Twitch excited Elsewhere’s team as virtual communication became de rigueur.
Other features Elsewhere is working on involve opportunities for voting, guest call-ins, and even ways for the audience to take control of the camera during a stream. Twitch’s graphic chat features allow Elsewhere’s Sound Space attendees to have an active voice, either by sending messages filled with channel-custom emojis or through “ bits,” tiny tips for a channel. The sound design and augmented reality effects will also attempt to push the performance into a more immersive experience. Elsewhere’s team developed effects and animation through TouchDesigner and Aximmetry especially for the upcoming shows to provide 2- and (somehow) 3-D video effects. Twitch’s open API allows for experimentation, creativity, and play unlike any other streaming services. “By reopening their doors to a virtual audience, Elsewhere is breathing new life into Brooklyn’s independent music scene, giving fans a space to connect while taking part in this cultural experience and supporting their favorite local venue.”Īlong with the live performances, the audience will have opportunities to interaction-in theory with more than a comment or emoji. “Elsewhere is known as a risk taker, booking eclectic and highly curated artists and building scenes from the ground up,” says Brian Rucker, director of premium music content at Twitch. Sound Space’s variety format and intergalactic theme-“the sci-fi misadventures of a music deity marooned in space, and their curious cultural dispatches back to Earth”-is a riff on the technological foibles that have become integral to pandemic life. New York rapper Princess Nokia headlines January’s show, which is free. “Our effort will be to go deeper and deeper and to make that a two-way street.”Įvery month starting next Thursday, host Peter Smith will lead audiences through an interactive variety show consisting of comedy, live music, and artist interviews. “The magic of Twitch is that feeling that you can reach into the screen and poke the talent on the screen and they will respond, in one way or another,” says Sound Space’s Technical Director Noah Norman. Enter Twitch, the massively popular live-streaming platform, owned by Amazon: “Elsewhere’s Sound Space,” the club’s new monthly virtual experiment, will debut on Jan. The club aspires to redefine and augment the virtual live music experience for audiences in ways that could possibly even outlive the coronavirus. The screen forms an impossible barrier between artist and audience, rendering all interactions as flat as the two dimensional display.Įlsewhere, the three-year-old indie nightclub and music venue in Bushwick, wants to change that by making its events truly interactive.
Its replacement, the livestream, is an imperfect substitute. For the foreseeable future, live music is but a post-pandemic pipe dream.
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