Process
Being an audio designer and interactive system designer in this project, numerous experiments conducted before rehearsals. Materials and interactions have huge changes during the following documentation.
Early Stage
The project initial concept is to perform with participants, with the device of solar panel connected to speaker, receiving the audio source through laser beam.
Each participant is assigned a receiver panel while entering the space, with innumerable designed scattering laser beams that connecting every unique sound source.
We look forward to the scene of the symphony. Various participants are able to produce their own sound by movement, rhythm, and choice.
Prototype device of receiver panel with volume control
I also attempted the variation of the light emitting, including laser, refraction of surface, magnification, etc. The medium device of connecting to sound source would be laser pen and machine, flashlight, light bulb, even projector.
Laser machine + Textured Acrylic Panel
Laser pen
Frequency Test through laser pen in 10m
Development & Tryout
After my improvisation light bulb performance, finally the method of "rhythm" was terminated by random. Each light bulb ballasts followed their own magnets with different rotation speed, and we have 8 sections. The 8 sections would distribute to 8 frequency zones to output the audio base on their rotation speed.
The Rhythm, Rotation Speed
Frequency Zones
Projector