/immersing the band with light
//story
Canadian future-pop outfit Purity Ring enjoyed a meteoric rise in 2012, gathering a huge amount of attention from the music press and fans. After signing to 4AD and releasing a debut album, the duo of Corin Roddick and Megan James wanted a new stage lighting set for a headline tour.
We came up with the concept of twenty cocoons that light up and physically immerse the band, creating an entrancing stage presence. Inspired by silk worm cocoons, Purity Ring's cocoons are made from polyurethane foam, cast from a three part silicon mould. They are staged using telescopic fibreglass poles - a simple, modular solution that can be rearranged to fit and give a different look at any venue. Each set of light behaviours is different for every song. While on stage, the band can also manually change and add light behaviours to songs on the fly, using a MIDI controller hooked up to the computer running Cortex. The overall effect of the cocoons is one that is definitely memorable for audiences.//how it works
Inside the cocoons, RGB LED modules are controlled using Cortex, a software application developed by Tangible for lighting and kinetic installations. Running within Ableton, Max For Live sends Open Sound Control (OSC) messages through a closed WiFi network to Cortex. For example, data relating to a drum beat, vocal pitch or volume. Cortex takes those messages and then applies a pre-determined light behaviour (animation).
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