About Artwork
Type(s)
- Interactive
- Light
- Outdoor
- Sound
- Temporary
Water Orchestra is an interactive aquatic and sound installation that lets visitors try their hand at being a conductor, moving their arms to direct a unique symphony for the eyes and ears.
From a podium, just like a conductor in front of musicians, visitors can direct, by moving their arms, an orchestra made up of water fountain jets, each of which produces its own unique musical sequence. Water Orchestra transforms the public space and becomes an interactive instrument of self-expression for visitors. Water Orchestra creates a place for people to come together and connect where everyone is invited to play and create a symphony that visitors can both hear and see.
Check out the light version, Light 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.
