Real time audiovisual installation
multichannel speakers, custom electronics
Æther Echo is an interactive installation featuring two mirror modules that create a unique visual and auditory experience. Inside the modules, LEDs illuminate a two-way mirror, which reflects and enhances the surrounding environment. The two monoliths also generate a sound composition that complements the visual elements. The balance between the mirror's reflection, the light patterns, and the sound evolves throughout the day, influenced by ambient light conditions, humidity and temperature.
The audiovisual content is dynamically generated based on local meteorological data, influenced by the sun and moon phases calculated on location. The installation also reacts to human´s interactions through a PIR sensor, which detects the presence of visitors including them as generative part of the composition.
Visitors and their surroundings are more or less reflected, creating an intriguing interplay between the generated visuals and the mirrored environment. The mirror's shape unifies the natural surroundings and the visitor, while also symbolizing a conceptual division between the "real world" and its constructed representation.
[0.1-30]Hz STRATA is a site specific audiovisual installation that explores the realm of unperceivable seismic activity. By utilizing real-time data from online geological databases and on-site custom-made seismometers, the installation tracks and visualizes underground movements around the Calegio marble quarry in Carrara, Italy.
A dynamic laser projection is mapped onto the extraction site, establishing an interconnected relationship between opposing scales: the vast macro scale of the quarry and the subtle micro scale of constant seismic activity. Through this juxtaposition, the site specific work prompts reflection on the complex interplay between human actions and the fragile equilibrium of the natural environment. The artwork conveys an abstract visual representation inspired by the constant dropping of little stones down the mountains, reminiscent to the effect of human erosion. Small dots of light are produced by an asset of 3 laser projectors according to the vibrations registered in real time by custom-made wireless sensors located around the site. The light elemets behaves like small stones, falling down the quarry and bouncing on the rocks they encounter along their paths.
The generated soundscape draws inspiration from the phenomenon of granular synthesis, creating an immersive sonic experience that mirrors the fragmented nature of seismic movements.
project commissioned by VOXMARMORIS
video documentation
Olivia Corsi
laser equipment: LaserAnimation Sollinger
RF audio system: SilentSystem
developed in Touchdesigner and Max4Live
LIMITED SKY
Dual channels audio, laser projection, video projection - 35 minutes
Limited Sky is an immersive audiovisual performance that blends real-time data about space objects orbiting the Earth with live visuals and sounds.
Space, as the latest human colonized area, is a perfect laboratory to monitor how humans occupy and handle their environment. Its conquest has been meticulously documented since the first human-made object was sent into orbit in 1957. Nowadays, while there are about 6,905 active satellites orbiting our planet, there are also 36,500 objects larger than 10cm, 1 million objects between 1-10cm, and 130 million objects below 1cm littering space.
An interdisciplinary team of artists, musicians and scientists worked together to create a dynamic and interactive experience that highlights the impact of human activities in space through the use of real-time data. The technical implementation involves custom software that translates the data into visuals for a video projector and a laser module together with a generative sound composition.
The live act symbolically recalls the history of life on Earth from the appearance of the first organisms to the first space missions, combining laser and video projection in a dynamic composition. Percussive and textural sonic events provide a counterpoint to these visual cues, generating both calm and turbulent soundscapes. From the organic sounds of the first part to the cryptic signals of the end, the performance aims to drive the viewer in an immersive journey through our colonization of space, driving attention to the amount of human made objects constantly crossing the sky.
Commissioned by Vox Marmoris
Laser equipment: Laser Animation Sollinger
Æther Echo
Æther Echo is an interactive installation consisting of two mirrored modules creating an enhanced reflection of the surroundings. Using several arraysof LEDs placed inside a two-way mirror box, the installation produces different light patterns and an ever changing soundscape. Throughout the day, the balance between the mirror's reflection, the light patterns and sound evolves, producing constantly different compositions.
The audiovisual content is real time generated by tracking local meteorological data and current sunphase/moonphase. Human movement is also detected through infrared sensors, activating different abstract light behaviours.
SATELLARIUM III
Satellarium III is the latest iteration of the satellarium installations series, presented as a projection in the urban space.
The installation tracks in real time space objects that fly above the location of the event and represent them with a dynamic visual laser projection and immersive soundscape in the urban space. Audience can access the generated sound composition and complementary information and graphics through a video live stream, reachable from
their own smartphone.
Satellarium III is the latest iteration of the satellarium installations series, presented as a projection in the urban space.
The installation tracks in real time space objects that fly above the location of the event and represent them with a dynamic visual laser projection and immersive soundscape in the urban space. Audience can access the generated sound composition and complementary information and graphics through a video live stream, reachable from
their own smartphone.
