eLabOrate(D): An Exploration of Human/Machine Collaboration in a Telematic Deep Listening Context

dispersion.eLabOrate(D) is a networked performance system which augments and supports Deep Listening workshop experiences through an environment that integrates human and machine collaboration. The sonic materials for this co-performance/creation are seeded by vocal activity of human participants, which continually contribute to an audio corpus of past content used for resynthesis of machine voices. Each participant experiences their own spatial sonic reality within a shared virtual audio space, as relative placement to other collaborative sources provide a unique vantage point via an accompanying virtual acoustics system. Responses from public play sessions are analyzed using a grounded theory approach to report on salient qualitative data resulting from performances with the system.