Kentyn Reynolds: LumaSynchrony, Gebunden
LumaSynchrony
- Light, Sound, Love, and Obsession
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- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798993685526
- Artikelnummer:
- 12701396
- Umfang:
- 290 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 558 g
- Maße:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 21 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 4.5.2026
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
People are no longer just watching media. They are using it to speak.
They document their lives, respond to one another, reshape sound and image, and tell stories as they move through the world. Something is changing. Not a rejection of traditional forms, but an expansion. Expression is becoming participatory. Communication is becoming immediate.
For M, a young artist and technologist, this shift is impossible to ignore. She senses a shared language forming, one that moves fluidly across sound, movement, and image.
She begins to imagine an environment that listens, a space where gesture, timing, and intention shape experience as it unfolds. To explore the idea, she gathers a small team at Channel Light, a hybrid studio devoted to immersive art. Drawn together by curiosity rather than ambition, they begin building a system that responds to motion, sound, and space with extraordinary sensitivity.
What emerges is not a fixed composition, but a living exchange. Gestures may initiate sound or image, but outcomes are never predetermined. The system responds as much as it acts, forming a dialogue between performers and space.
As the work deepens, something unexpected begins to emerge. For responsiveness to feel coherent, the environment must remember. For memory to matter, it must relate patterns across time. For those patterns to feel meaningful, the system must pay attention. No one sets out to create intelligence. It appears gradually, as a consequence of listening.
As progress becomes visible, attention follows, not all of it welcome. The tone shifts. Questions surface indirectly, with no clear source. M begins to sense her work is being watched not only for what it creates, but for what it might enable.
Among those watching is Mike, a corporate strategist shaped by acquisition and control. Where M sees a shared language emerging, he sees leverage. Where she values responsiveness, he values dominance.
His influence is rarely direct. Pressure arrives through intellectual property challenges, strategic obstruction, and quiet interference. The goal is containment, redirecting the work into channels that can be governed and monetized.
As scrutiny intensifies, M faces difficult choices. What once felt purely creative now carries real consequences. The greatest risk lies not in the technology itself, but in the hands that seek to control it.
LumaSynchrony is a science fiction novel grounded in real technologies and artistic disciplines. It explores a shift already underway, and asks how we will choose to respond.