Music creation and presentation are in a great place, but we have been running in this place for decades. The times of regular groundbreaking changes are no longer upon us. Perhaps the view of the future taken by Miro Shot will be brought into a greater and more shared focus by the current concern over safely attending a concert. Miro Shot isn’t merely a group of skilled musicians; it is a collective of musicians, filmmakers, coders and designers. They see the potential of applying virtual reality and other technological advancements to the musical experience. And if concert-goers are wearing VR equipment, crowding close to the stage losses its appeal.
The Facebook page of Miro Shot identifies their hometown as London/Paris and lists the membership as Roman Rappak, Tomo Carter, Hinako Omori, Klara Romec, Alexander Parsons, and Jamie Keegan. Miro Shot released their debut album “Content,” on May 1, 2020, via All Points and Warp Publishing. Among the high energy, rhythm-drive songs is “Half Of Us.” Showing that their vision of today’s realities is clear, the press content explains:
HALF OF US is about the multiple realities we experience daily through our phones, laptops and social media – the best and worst sides of influencer culture, online identities, the infinite flow of information that we are exposed to every day. Its about the way we have changed not only the way we communicate and consume information, but the way we look at the world, what it means to be alive, and even how we see ourselves.
Through technology our lives have now spread across more than just one reality - we have added multiple layers and grades between what we think of as “real life” and the “virtual”. We are online personas, Instagram accounts and avatars. We are the tiny Uber icon driving from one place to the next, next to a rating of how polite we have been, linked to a bank account that exists outside of the physical world – while desperately trying to be “real” and deriding things that are “fake.”
