Masary Studios in Boston, MA, is a multi-disciplinary collective of artists that creates one-of-a-kind experiences where visuals and sound intersect. Each project is built individually, comprising such elements as original music, video projection mapping, interactivity, and sometimes even live performance. In other words, they are doing some really cool stuff!
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This type of installation can from the outside, seem similar to other installations that are designed to engage the user in space. However, this installation is completely different as it incorporates sound, lighting, and digital mapping on an extremely large scale. The blocks can be moved around to create different pitched notes, or different rhythms of the notes to create new compositions each time, and for each audience. I love that the audience can engage with this installation and work together to create something entirely new. The article doesn't really go in depth about how they achieve this installation with digital mapping as much as I would like, but it is still a good overall article to generate interest. This installation is also really intuitive for the audience to manipulate, as moving the blocks left or right changes the rhythm, while moving the blocks up and down change the pitch. If you stack the blocks on top of each other, the audience could create chords, melodies, and harmonies. It is such an ingenious idea and hope this installation makes its way to Pittsburgh soon.
I love how interactive this exhibit is! Masary studios in Boston, MA has created a new musical instrument by designing boxes that glow different colors and play musical notes depending on where you place them. For example, the musical note becomes higher in pitch the higher you stack the box on its y-axis and where you put it on the x-axis changes the rhythm of the note. The exhibit relies on participants who can move these boxes around to create their own music! I love the idea of an interactive exhibit/sculpture that allows people who may not know how to play instruments to make their own music. The lights on the boxes add to the experience as well! This installation has just been given a US patent as a “Location Aware Musical Instrument” and they’ve recently made huge strides in the technology that they use for the 25 cube location aware musical and light sculpture.
From what I hear, a lot of designers (lighting, sound, scenic) don't collaborate as much as they should. And typically when that happens, their final product doesn't piece together well as they thought and it doesn't work as well as it could have. Ryan Edwards will be a featured speaker at LDI 2019, with a session to look into "interactivity, sound, and light." He will be discussing an interactive sculpture called "The Intersection of Light, Sound, and Interactivity" that will be free for the public to play with and hopefully create engaging scenarios with these light and sound emitting LED cubes. These blocks are interactive by using wireless MIDI controllers which make these blocks free to move and to essentially make music with. It seems like a very enjoyable interactive installation and runs throughout the week of XLIVE and LDI 2019 during November 18th through the 24th in Las Vegas.
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