Concept Goal:
“Affecting people with music in an interactive audiovisual environment.”
Concept:
There is a darkroom. Everytime you will enter the room you will see colourful spots on the floor. The instrument will start playing when you step into one of them and it also gets brighter. Fot that reason you realise that it is activated.
If someone is standing still or walking cautiously, the instrument will be monotonous and soft. But if the person starts to run or dance the instrument will get more variations, dynamics and louder.
When more people enter the room, more instruments are added. Every person in the room represents one instrument (with a maximum of 7 instruments).
When you want to change your instrument you enter a free colour spot on the floor.
For taking another instrument you calm down and stand still, therefore the instrument will fade out...
After not moving for 5 seconds you are free to choose a new instrument by jumping into a new colourful spot. Your former spot colour will gets less bright and stops following you.
The whole movements from the person, dancing in the room, will be sketched on the floor in their special instrument colour. By changing your moving style and speed you can influence the lines on the floor in particluar the thickness of the line. You only leave a trail when you touch the ground. By jumping you make dots. It almost look like drawing with light, or even like calligraphy.
The movement also influence the lighting in the room, and the visuals projected on the walls. So the environment triggers the user to react, then the user will cause a change in the environment which in turn should trigger the user to change his/her behaviour. People will be activated to explore their surrounding.
If you getting close enough to the walls you also have an effect on it and your colour will jump over to it. Blending colours are also possible, when two instruments cross their ways.
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The action of each separate person is reflected in the environment. But the instruments and visuals are also working together to create music (an experience/emotion). Just like the lines of a poem are separate but still a whole.
/Group J
1 comment:
"darkroom" > "dark room" ? :p
Btw, I saw some artifact on Bright some year ago. It was a platform of one meter square and green laser lights were coming from the ceiling. You could step on the platform and every laser line you'd interrupt would trigger a sound. It was really nice and you could dance on that square meter -a little bit more experimenting than dancing though :).
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