One River (running …): Hybrid Space - Open Composition for an Immersive Environment.

The theoretical and practical concepts presented here pivot around the composition and design of an interactive audiovisual installation, presented at the Surrey Arts Centre in 200S: One River (running ⋯). This immersive media environment is a new form of participatory documentary that reflects the contemporary Surrey community it is presented in. This open composition takes advantage of a set of braided computational media and narrative processes as a dramatic model and integrates computation as a medium for composition, expanded immersive environment, performance and improvisation. The concept of braided processes provides a model for braided conversations and provides an open frame-work for describing an integrated relationship among various independent elements that comprise the complex media braid within the One River (running ⋯) environment and is discussed in detail in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]