Exploring Real, Virtual and Augmented Worlds Through “Putney”, an Extended Reality by Ricardo Climent, Mark Pilkington and Alena Mesáro!ová Held in Manchester from 24–26 October 2014, the first Sines & Squares Festival of Analogue Electronics and Modular Synthesis (http://2014.sines-squares.org) was an initiative of Richard Scott, Guest Editor for this issue of eContact! Some of the authors in this issue presented their work in the many concerts, confer " ences and master classes that comprised the festival, and articles based on those presentations are featured here. After an extremely enjoyable and suc" cessful first edition, the second edition is in planning for 18–20 November 2016. Sines & Squares 2014 was realised in collaboration with Ricardo Climent, Sam Weaver, students at NOVARS Research Centre at Manchester University and Islington Mill Studios. Putney is an interactive sonic path-finding project featuring a virtual VCS3 synthesizer created with a graphics-physics-game engine and originally composed and designed by Ricardo Climent in 2014. The storyline is set in 1969 and it features an abandoned vernier pot called “K” as the main character of a sonic-centric immersive experience. Performers need to help K to navigate her sonic journey (a sonic path) in search for “home”, the historical EMS studios on Putney Bridge Road in London. Background The Concept The underlying concept behind Putney is the navigation of the intersections be" tween the real, the virtual and the augmented through the medium of sound, aiming to construct a new “extended reality”. We commence with an introduc" tion to retrograde cultures and the interference of cross-modalities, at the same time providing information about some of the original features in the VCS3. Then, we explore the connections between the notions of modularity, hy" bridisation and extended reality through interactive performance, under the umbrellas of music composition and live game-audio. http://econtact.ca/17_4/climent-etal_putney.html CEC — eContact! 17.4 — Exploring Real, Virtual and Augm... http://econtact.ca/17_4/climent-etal_putney.html 1 of 15 16/11/2016 17:54