Interactive AV collab (2024)

Interactive AV collab

CREATED TOGETHER WITH DI. STUDIO
GYUMRI TECHNOLOGY CENTER (ARMENIA, 2023)

I was requested to add the sound dimension to an existing Kinect-based installation by the di. studio in Gyumri Technology Center.

di. studio already had Kinect-based interactive visuals ready. So I came up with a track that played in the background, and sounds connected to visitors' hand movements and the appearance of certain visuals on the displays.

"You find yourself in the hull of an abandoned spaceship on an unknown planet. It’s resonating; it’s dark there. It must have spent years there. Wild plants have already grown inside, some liquids are dripping, and you can hear strange, subtle sounds.
You are not alone here. There is some creature living inside the hull – an insect or maybe a living algorithm; the edges between living and non-living are blurred here.
You are invited to enter this space, explore it, communicate with it."

There will be two components to the sound:

non-interactive component.

It comprises:

soundscape (subtle ambient sound) – always plays as a backdrop
the sound of the “algorithmic insect” – plays only when the ‘cellular automata-like’ pattern is displayed

2. interactive component

bright sounds that a user can play with

There are bright sounds in major on interaction

and more ambient, dull sounds in minor in the background.

The farther a user is from the installation, the brighter the interactive sounds are, and they play at a slower rate. On the contrary, as the user approaches the installation, the rate of the playback increases and the sounds become more blurry, inviting the user to interact and play more with the installation.