Friday, January 15, 2016
Light Waves Move in a Projection-Mapped Orchestral Performance
The Creators Project: Attempts at modifying the classical orchestral music experience with modern or futuristic visuals are fraught with peril. Executed poorly, it’s forced and cheesy. Done well, it’s gorgeous, mind-melting, and inspiring. And that’s what we have here with SIM/NEBULA, an 45-minute projection mapping performance for SIGNAL Festival that pairs immersive visuals with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
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This is an absolutely mesmerizing display of media. I think that this is a great way to enhance the orchestral performance and the “boring” stigma that younger audiences hold that surrounds orchestras. However, it raises an interesting question that I think that various forms of “antiquated” entertainment and performance are struggling with. What action do they take with an aging subscription base? Do they stay true to their traditions, rework their entire mission to appease to younger audiences, or do they do do something like Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and adapt? This is something that I think that our generation will have the responsibility of dealing with. And it’s a chance for designers and producers to expand and work their craft. Designers face challenges everyday, whether it be space or budget limitations, but what about audience limitations? It’s a question for designers and directors to answer and I think they are ready.
This was really cool and innovative. I really liked how the projections of light were synced up with the music so well. It seemed like the music was controlling the waves and particles in space. It was really cool how it always looked like the concert hall and had little details even when there was not a lot of light on. I think it is really interesting how they combined light and sound like this because people do not think about how closely they are related. It was really cool to see sound represented visually because we do not think about how sound waves work or look normally. Watching this it just made sense on how sound would look if you could see it. It was so beautiful and peaceful the entire time and had a really great flow to it. I think designers should do more things like this in the future.
This was an amazing example of the ways music and media can be combined. Most of the time it feels like there’s a disconnect between the visual and musical aspects of something like this. Either they don’t seem to be connect to each other or they feel like they’re competing with each other. But the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra nails it. The visual aspects of the performance act like they’re being caused by the musical aspects, and not as if they’re trying to drown them out. One part of what they did that I especially liked (and that greatly contributed to the sense of completeness) was how none of the visual effects were placed on the musicians themselves. You can pay attention to both parts of the performance with out feeling like you’re going to miss something. Instead of having to choose between looking at what ever lighting and visual things are happening on the musicians and what’s being projected around them.
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