Scope of work: author, coding in Max/MSP (synthesizers, visuals and sound spatialisation) and C++ (program for live interpretation of data from Kinect 2 sensor), sound design
Series of interactive installations which arose from the desire to create a space for communication between technology and human. Using Kinect sensor, live synthesizers and visualisations written in Max/MSP, and pre-composed samples, the experience connects auditory, visual and kinaesthetic senses. The title indicates the possibility of experimentation and the search for one’s own relationship with the medium.
v2
Second, latest version of the installation, shown at the Bats Festival Finale in Wroclaw, 2021. Inspired by bats, this reinterpretation decreases the usage of visual stimuli to its minimum, focusing on sound and space.
As visible in the video, there are four different paths with 4 different speakers at the end of them. Entering
one of the paths triggers one of the four micro-compositions, and moving along them affects changes in the timbre and other sonic parameters. Each micro-composition focuses on a different sound phenomenon: echolocation, communication, bat hunting, and sonar. By their nature, these sounds are inaudible to the human ear, but they have been processed to the audible range, and accompanied by a flute. The composition can be listened to in a non-linear (installation) or linear way (as presented below).
Recordings of bats courtesy of Anna Bator-Kocol and Tomasz Gottfried
Transverse flute – Joanna Czarny
v1
This version was finished during my internship at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Presented originally in the Kubus concert hall in 2019, on a 53-speaker dome, first internally, then open to the public during one weekend. A year later it was exhibited in a smaller form during Sound Art Festival in Poznań, Poland. Installation is comprised of six synthesizers and visualisations written in Max/MSP, and a program in C++ to capture and interpret the Kinect sensor data.
During the public presentation the lights were off (as presented below), they were turned on only for the purpose of this video.
v0
A multisensory interactive installation with semi-generative sounds from six synthesizers, a visualisation written in Max/MSP plus a set of lights controlled through the DMX protocol. A spectator could turn the knobs on an Akai LPD8 controller and thus influence the installation’s sounds, visuals and lights. No knob was described – it was up to the person to decipher the language. Presented in 2019 on the students’ of Interactive Media and Performance exhibition Overwrite:/underread.