/a stunning sound + visual playscape
//story
After a one-year hiatus for the Winter Olympic Games, Illuminate Yaletown returned to Vancouver’s heritage quarter streets for two nights in February 2011. Twenty-one local artists took part, creating a stunning visual landscape for people to explore.
We were excited to be part of the festival and created Sound Clouds, a new installation inspired by the infamously wet, west coast weather. Our idea was to build something that would produce a positive reaction to clouds, since they are often so very disliked here in Vancouver due to their association with the almost constant winter rain. What we came up with was a set of eight faceted and almost translucent cloud structures with LED lights inside. We placed them around Yaletown Park to transform the space into a playscape where people could interact with clouds in a whole new way.//how it works
Each Sound Cloud reacted independently with generative coloured light mapped to audio, created by Alex Beim and programmed by Daito Manabe at Rhizomatiks. People were invited to wander among the clouds, immersing themselves in the light and sound experience. The Sound Clouds contained DMX controlled, diffused ColorBlast LED lights. They were designed with a Tangible custom app and finished in Cinema 4D. The installation was created using Max/MSP.
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super puff
noise
parasol
colouring app
helix
samsung graffiti
OH!
summit
bubbles
field
halo
hako
fireflies
winged
marshmallow…
shine with pride
alveoli
array
mini halo swarm
zygote stageset
anima
experience…
illuminate…
pulse
sound clouds
jelly swarm
cocoons
mist
seed of truce
picidae chorus
mikado
boxcam
imsound
line segments
imaginary friends
stalagmites
visitor
pixmob zygotes
voice it table
LED bottle wall
megaclouds
starburst
mo-cap graffiti…