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 working in the field of interactive art and media. Its members are actively evolving both artistically and professionally within different spheres of the creative landscape. They frequently collaborate with other multimedia creation studios such as Moment Factory, Float4, and Champagne Club Sandwich, while also conducting in-house research-creation projects.
These explorations often lead to the creation of unique site-specific works as well as original cross-disciplinary hybrids. Their creations are driven by a desire to develop not only new forms of interaction, but above all meaningful and lasting relationships with their audience.
With over ten years of experience in the performing arts, director Félix Dagenais and lighting designer Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun founded ATOMIC3 in order to pursue their artistic practice beyond the walls of theatre, by inventing new ways of telling stories and sparking the imagination.
Together, they design and create urban installations that transform spaces and illuminate everyday life. Whether interactive or contemplative, their works invite citizens to look at their environment with fresh eyes. Their rich background in the performing arts informs each of their creations, which are infused with unique narrative and poetic dimensions.
