Scenic is a collaborative audiovisual telepresence tool, allowing artists and broadcasters to create, record and broadcast shows, immersive experiences, conferences or educational activities in many different physical spaces at once.
Telepresence connects remote places via the Internet and promotes real-time encounters and interactions between them. Through an immersive installation, you can give the feeling that one place extends into another. Remote groups can see and talk to each other as if they were in the same space, interacting and collaborating remotely.
Applied to the performing arts, telepresence offers the possibility of creating a work that connects to and is distributed between different venues to connect artists to distant audiences.
Telepresence is about audiovisual transmission in real time. With the Scenic Station, it’s possible to connect standard equipment like projectors, screens, mics, speakers and consoles to receive and broadcast audiovisual streams, creating custom scenographies.
Through its network of connected spaces, Scenic is bringing artists and broadcasters together to reimagine the performing arts and cultural outreach in the digital age.
Scenic invites its users to explore new forms of creation in real-time to develop a new performance venue language. With its network of connected performance spaces, SCENIC brings together artists and presenters who have a passion for reinventing the performing arts and cultural mediation for the digital age.
Theater
Theater, Dance
Drawing, Sound, Video
Theater
Inter-Regional Brainstorming Workshop
Youth Activities
To see all the projects, visit the Scenic website
Never before have so many venues had the necessary tools to create and broadcast stage telepresence projects. For example, the Musée de la Civilization de Québec was equipped with a Scenic station in 2019.
The result of ten years of research, this program, initiated by the Society for Technological Arts [SAT], is now an official part of the Quebec Digital Cultural Plan under the Ministry of Culture and Communications (MCC). The aim of stage telepresence is to create a space where broadcasters and producers can co-create, exchange and stage collaborative works.
Stage telepresence is made possible thanks to the Scenic open-source software suite, developed by Metalab and embedded in a dedicated mobile station equipped for the stage.
The first of its kind in the world, this network of connected rooms makes it possible to create a new scenic and scenographic language. New forms of telepresence, remote collaborative work and networked performance are emerging and will bring artists and creative initiatives far beyond the province of Québec.
New social economic models and increased partnerships with the business community in each region will also be created. Each location equipped with the SCENIC Station will gain prominence by becoming a hub in its region and an active partner within a network of national and international creation and exchange.
Alma : Ville d’Alma Spectacles
Gaspé : C.D. Spectacles
Joliette : Centre culturel Desjardin de Joliette
L’Assomption : Diffusion Hector-Charland
Laval : Laval Co-Motion
Montmagny : Les Arts de la scène de Montmagny
Montréal : Monument National
Montréal : Place-des-Arts
Montréal : Société des arts technologiques
Montréal : La Tohu
Montréal : Corporation du Théâtre Outremont
Québec : Musée de la civilisation
Rimouski : Coopérative de solidarité Paradis
Rivière-du-Loup : Rivière-du-Loup en spectacles
Rouyn-Noranda : Petit Théâtre du Vieux-Noranda
Sept-Îles : Sept-îles Salle Jean-Marc-Dion
Sherbrooke : Centre culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke
Saint-Camille : Le p’tit bonheur de Saint-Camille
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu : Société pour la promotion d’événements culturels du Haut-Richelieu
Ste-Thérèse : Odyscène
Trois-Rivières : Culture Trois-Rivières
Victoriaville : Diffusion Momentum / Le Carré 150, espace culturel de Victoriaville
Scenic enables low-latency data exchange over the Internet with one or more other Scenic stations. This shared data, whether video, sound or MIDI, or OSC commands, enables the creation and development of new forms of distributed artistic creation and dissemination.
The Scenic station is a tool designed and developed by the SAT, which makes the most of the capabilities of the Scenic software and represents the cutting edge of stage telepresence. Its large number of audio, video and digital inputs and outputs guarantees remarkable versatility, and its 2 touch-screens ensure easy and intuitive operation.
Transmission of audio/video streams to the main online streaming platforms:
The Scenic software manages the heart of the station, it is ideal for the development of new forms of creations and broadcasts integrating telepresence, as well as the remote control of audiovisual and computer equipment.
Scenic is a true technological Swiss army knife: it is compatible with MIDI, OSC and NewTek NDI® protocols, JACK and PulseAudio audio servers, Nvidia video cards (NVENC) as well as those supporting the Video4Linux API. Scenic also allows streaming on platforms such as YouTube and Twitch using the RTMP protocol. Connections between Scenic stations, on the other hand, are peer-to-peer using the UDP protocol and use SIP and STUN/TURN technologies for addressing and NAT traversal.
Using its matrix interface, users can create complex signal routings and quickly assign local and remote streams to multiple video and audio outputs for custom staging. A Scenes mechanism makes it possible to quickly switch between different routings during a performance, and each Scenic session can be saved for later use.
Using its matrix interface, users can create complex signal routings and quickly assign local and remote streams to multiple video and audio outputs for custom staging. A Scenes mechanism makes it possible to quickly switch between different routings during a performance, and each Scenic session can be saved for later use.