IMMERSIVE AUDIOVISUAL ENVIRONMENTS - XVIII
18th collection of immersive spaces, dedicated to audiovisual spaces shaped by lights and sound. Check previous collections under the tag “Immersive Audiovisual Environments”.
The pioneer audiovisual spaces Polytopes, by Iánnis Xenákis during the 1960s and 1970s, can be considered the “starting point for many contemporary researches in multimedia performances and immersive environments”
(Farbizi, 2014 “Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture” ).
[pic. PARALLELS, Nonotak // N-POLYTONE, Chris Salter // HYPERJUMP, Tundra]
HYPERLINE
“Immersive audio reactive installation exploring electroluminescent technology (EL).
360 meters of EL wires segmented in 30 independent sections. These sections are controlled by an audio reactive setup built in Arduino and Pure Data that splits the audio signal to represent it visually and dynamically in real time.”
By Devicers, 2014. More info here.
“Hyperjump explores the idea, set by this paradoxical combination: the basketball court, representing the physicality, we have from the nature, together with the architecture of the classicism period, the symbol of the human rationality.
25 moving head light beams on a truss stands and a powerful sound system were installed along the hall. While the light sculpture started to move, the electronic light devices came to life, turning into the actors themselves, bringing the light, shut in the strict geometry back, to its unpredictable nature.”
By TUNDRA, 2015. More info, pictures and full credits here.
“Parallels explores light as a material, but this time the space as a whole becomes their screen.( Reference to Daydream installation series) The boundaries and notion of space, become abstract as the audience crosses the room, but in doing so, the audience also affects the space by breaking the light. This installation is strongly connected to the space in which it takes place; it lives within it. But as soon as the light hits the walls that define the space it reaches its limits and stops reproducing itself.
The installation is also inspired by Anthony Mccall’s exploration of light and space.”
By Nonotak, 2015. More info here.
A CHANDELIER FOR ONE OF MANY POSSIBLE ENDS
“92 individual light elements each controlled by a Geiger counter. Lights flash in response to the Geiger counters detecting high energy particles of radioactivity from sources both terrestrial and cosmic. Normal levels of environmental radioactivity cause the instillation to flicker randomly. A source of contamination great enough to cause the entire chandelier to remain solidly lit would be fatal to any living thing in the room.”
By Phillip David Stearns, 2014. More info here.
N_POLYTONE - Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis
“N_Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis is a spectacular light and sound performance-installation combining cutting edge lighting, lasers, sound, sensing and machine learning software inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis’s radical 1960s- 1970s works named Polytopes (from the Greek ‘poly’, many and ‘topos’, space).”
“N_Polytope is based on the attempt to both re-imagine Xenakis’ work with probabilistic/stochastic systems with new techniques as well as to explore how these techniques can exemplify our own historical moment of extreme instability”.
Concept and Direction: Chris Salter, 2012. More info here. Besides the version above (Gijon), N-Polytopes has been presented in different versions and forms in Basel, Berlin and Montreal.
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