Light Holders

The light artwork “Lichthouders” was based on the gasholders, formerly located on the NRE site in Eindhoven, in the shape of large, round storage spaces. Round, metal constructions of light elements placed on top of their historical ‘footprints’. These circulair elements display sound loops.

The concept of using sound loops and making them visible is inspired by the sound experiments done by Philips in the 60’s by artists like Dick Raaijmakers. We created three “Lichthouders”, two with a diameter of 15 meters and one with a diameter of 21 meters, all have the same 3 meters height. Each object contains several hundreds of led pixels.

Every circle contains several audio loops and play in random order but within their sound composition. The audio loops are in sync with light animations so the movement and sound is directly visible. Using a 6 speakers setup, the sounds are all moving around the public, creating a spatial hearing.