The Interact section contains the different real-time Java applets for home use and for direct participation in the live Brain Opera. Users can download all necessary software and use it to run interactive musical games on their home systems, as well as to send data from their interactions directly to the live performances; at various parts in the piece, the physical performers will stop playing and invite the Internet performers to take over. Finally, during the Lincoln Center performances (July 23-August 3, 1996), there will be regularly-scheduled audio and possibly video broadcasts of the live performances; further information will be provided on these soon. We encourage all of our Web audiences to participate in as many ways as they can.
The interactive Java applets used in the Brain Opera were designed by Eric Metois, John Yu, and Andrew Garcia, with help from Carl Malamud. These applets let web players experiment with hyperinstruments, and also to play communal instruments -- using Metois' Web Star Server -- to create music to be sent live to Lincoln Center performances. Music and sound can also be prepared off-line, and submitted through the website at any time for inclusion in Movement 3 of the piece.
