Synaesthetic Landscape
Synaesthetic Landscape is an interactive animation, where elements of a small poetic landscape grow and evolve in real-time in relation to the music and the user’s actions. The installation includes a tangible interface in the form of a spherical organic element, filled with an Arduino and sensors. The user can play with it via four possible interactions, which follow conceptual metaphors:
At the same time, natural elements grow and change in real-time with the music (which can be any track chosen by the user):
The audio-visual mappings give an impression of rhythmic and melodic cohesion between sounds and visuals but without giving clues to easily. The fact that some relations between elements are not clear, without giving a feeling of randomness, is what mattered to me.
I made the visuals using Photoshop and paintings from Monet, Klee and van Gogh, animation with Processing, physical computing with Arduino software and hardware, and used an empty greek gourd for the interface.
Music from Tom Kerstens’ G Plus ensemble.
At the same time, natural elements grow and change in real-time with the music (which can be any track chosen by the user):
The audio-visual mappings give an impression of rhythmic and melodic cohesion between sounds and visuals but without giving clues to easily. The fact that some relations between elements are not clear, without giving a feeling of randomness, is what mattered to me.
I made the visuals using Photoshop and paintings from Monet, Klee and van Gogh, animation with Processing, physical computing with Arduino software and hardware, and used an empty greek gourd for the interface.
Music from Tom Kerstens’ G Plus ensemble.