ProSoundWeb: More than just another summer rock festival, Denmark’s Roskilde Festival is a broad meeting ground where music, visual arts and technology come together to form a dynamic creative community. As one example, during the 2019 event Meyer Sound partnered with the festival’s creative team and students at the Danish Technical University to design and construct an intriguing “Sonic Crystals” demonstration project.
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Music festivals are the perfect place to put experimental art and installations, and installing a sonic experience is an amazing way to capture the art and technology that is at the heart of the music industry, and at the heart of concerts and festivals. For all the listening that goes on at music festivals and concerts, I doubt that attendees really ever stop to engage with the sound for the sake of the sound itself. This installation is a fascinating look at the way sound interacts with an environment, and how sound can be experienced in vastly different ways depending on your spatial relation to the source and surrounding objects. I would love to listen to the composition created for this piece, to look at (hear?) how the composers planned to manipulate the tones and frequencies in the music to create a multilayered experience throughout the installation, and to provide a unique sound in relation to each crystal.
Theoretical projects and installations like this one mentioned in the article are always my favorites. From an idea to a complete project there is a long and winding path. the possibilities we see in our daily life is so frequent that it almost feels like there are too many to be carried out. Start from this project, I have already came up with a further following up that by scaling down it could be a portable device that takes no battery to generate a song. I am holding the highest respect towards these artist and technician that they spent a solid chunk of their time and dedicated their effort to the realization of the project. The thinking process involved must be very interesting, along with every artistic or technical choice they had to make. I am also hoping that this type of festivals or gatherings could keep thriving in the future, and further the growth of installations that dedicated to art.
This is a really interesting installation. It is fairly common to see installations at music festivals, however, unlike Rosklide Festival, most of the installations are some sort of visual art. Rosklide has taken the installation a step further by making an auditory installation which. In addition, it isn’t just a cool trick with a speaker and some additional tubes and materials, no—this installation incorporates art, science, and technology into one singular installation which demonstrates sound and its different frequencies. I really wish I could go to see this installation and hear what the article is describing. I have a basic understanding of how sound works, but I want to see more detail on the “crystals” and hear how they affect the music being played. I just find it so interesting that an arrangement of wooden and cardboard tubes has the ability to dampen specific frequencies from the audible spectrum, and I really want to see just what each crystal sounds like.
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