The Orison
What the hell is an Orison?
That was one of my first questions with this project, and despite having read about 280 pages of Cloud Atlas that was still plaguing me. In reading the chapter titled "An Orison of Sonmi~451" all I knew was the the device was a silver, egg shaped object which could record both sound and images. WAHEY! [deliberate hint of sarcasm here] it sounded like a gimicky video camera/sound recorder. That doesn't sound so special now does it?
OOOH!
Last night I finally reached the end of "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After ". This in itsef was a mission as it is written in the dialect of a post apocalyptic tribe living on an island near to Hawaii [I think].
The chapter did however unlock a whole lot more information about the Orison and it's application. The Orison is activated by human touch. When held it vibrates and glows into life.
It seems that it can project video footage from its tip [I picture R2-D2 and the Princess Leia message from the original Star Wars movie].
This projection method seems pretty advanced [I am unaware of current developments in 3D hologram projection]. The real power of the Orision it seems is its connectivity to other Orisons across the globe. The Orison is a smart [if you have read Cloud Atlas that term should be familiar, if you haven't read it, tough!].
The owner of an Orison has access to the information acquired by every other Orison, they can also contact and video conference with other Orison owners. The Orison can also be used as a tool which can interface with various other technologies [Meronym uses it to unlock various doors on Mauna Kea].
Learning this, along with the proceeding slaughter of various different tribes, led me to continue to the end of the chapter and I would have continued to at least the end of the next Sonmi~451 chapter had it not been 2am, and if I hadn't needed to get up at 06.30 for work!
So at the moment my plan is to develop some form of PDA based Orison. I'm not sure how much of the fictional Orisons' capabilities I will be able to mimic/re-create but it could make for an interesting [and no doubt very confusing] train of thought/practice.
That was one of my first questions with this project, and despite having read about 280 pages of Cloud Atlas that was still plaguing me. In reading the chapter titled "An Orison of Sonmi~451" all I knew was the the device was a silver, egg shaped object which could record both sound and images. WAHEY! [deliberate hint of sarcasm here] it sounded like a gimicky video camera/sound recorder. That doesn't sound so special now does it?
OOOH!
Last night I finally reached the end of "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After ". This in itsef was a mission as it is written in the dialect of a post apocalyptic tribe living on an island near to Hawaii [I think].
The chapter did however unlock a whole lot more information about the Orison and it's application. The Orison is activated by human touch. When held it vibrates and glows into life.
It seems that it can project video footage from its tip [I picture R2-D2 and the Princess Leia message from the original Star Wars movie].
This projection method seems pretty advanced [I am unaware of current developments in 3D hologram projection]. The real power of the Orision it seems is its connectivity to other Orisons across the globe. The Orison is a smart [if you have read Cloud Atlas that term should be familiar, if you haven't read it, tough!].
The owner of an Orison has access to the information acquired by every other Orison, they can also contact and video conference with other Orison owners. The Orison can also be used as a tool which can interface with various other technologies [Meronym uses it to unlock various doors on Mauna Kea].
Learning this, along with the proceeding slaughter of various different tribes, led me to continue to the end of the chapter and I would have continued to at least the end of the next Sonmi~451 chapter had it not been 2am, and if I hadn't needed to get up at 06.30 for work!
So at the moment my plan is to develop some form of PDA based Orison. I'm not sure how much of the fictional Orisons' capabilities I will be able to mimic/re-create but it could make for an interesting [and no doubt very confusing] train of thought/practice.
posted by Paul Coffield at 10:48 AM
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