About Artwork
Type(s)
- Interactive
- Light
- Outdoor
- Sound
- Temporary
Light Orchestra is an interactive light and sound installation that invites visitors to become conductors, moving their arms to direct a symphony of light and music. From a conductor’s podium, visitors can direct an orchestra of motorized projectors that create beams of light and unique musical sequences that respond to the maestro’s movements. The light and music adapt and evolve according to the enthusiasm of the budding conductor. With increased movement, the music becomes livelier and beams of light move more energetically; with slower movement, the music becomes soft and the light beams gently sway.
The goal of Light Orchestra is to give people a chance to feel for a brief moment what it would be like to control powerful beams of light as well as being in charge of an orchestra. The artists spent a lot of time developing a fluid interactive system that would let people express themselves and delve deeper into the experience no matter how they decided to interact with it.
Check out the water version, Water Orchestra.
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Artist(s)
OTTOMATA & Atomic 3
Ottomata is a technological collective who revolves around interactive and media art. The members are actively evolving artistically as well as professionally in different scenes of the creative landscape. They frequently collaborate with other multimedia creation studios such as Moment Factory, Float4 and Champagne Club Sandwich, while working in-house on research-creation opportunities.
These explorations often lead to the creation of unique in situ works and to original blendings with parallel disciplines. Their creations are shaped by their desire to develop not just new, but deep and meaningful levels of interaction with their public.
With over 10 years of experience in the performing arts, director Félix Dagenais and lighting designer Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun founded ATOMIC3 to push their artistic development beyond the walls of theatre, inventing new ways to tell stories and spark the imagination.
Together they design and create urban installations that transform space and light up people’s everyday lives. Whether interactive or contemplative, their works invite citizens to look at their environment with new eyes. Their rich and diverse performing arts experience informs their approach, bringing original narrative and poetic dimensions to their work.
