LUCE: The Sound of Color (2009)

from here

Jena, Germany, February 25, 2009 – When the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin composed his "Prometheus" symphony nearly 100 years ago, he also developed a color piano that was to convert music into colors, creating a visual extension to the listening experience. However, during the lifetime of the composer (1872–1915), there were not the technological possibilities available to wholly implement this vision he had of converting music into color. Thanks to state-of-the-art color sensors today, it is now possible to stimulate all the senses of the audience.

State-of-the-art Color Sensor Technology from MAZeT Permits a
New Dimension To Be Achieved When Transforming Music into Colors

The “LUCE. The Sound of Colors" project offered impressive proof of this in December 2008. rosalie, a light artist from Stuttgart, Germany, placed 170 balloons in the booked-out concert hall of the Jena Volkshaus. These balloons provided a backdrop of light for the Philharmonic concert. The artist had transformed and programmed the musical pieces into a color composition that was then played along with the music. The balloons had different sizes—ranging from half a meter up to two and half meters in diameter—and were specially equipped with an LED and a color sensor. The color sensors developed by MAZeT and manufactured by Jenoptik ensured that every color that belonged to a note was always perceived in the same way, and more precisely, regardless of the ambient brightness. Only then can the fine nuances of the notes be transformed into differentiated shades of color.

thinking ISEA

which track to address??
perhaps

Transportation: “Dynamobilities”

The once-simple task of moving from point A to point B has become a minefield of choices and consequences. The “Dynamobilities” theme will highlight art works, panels and workshops that ask questions about and present possible solutions to the issue of 21st century mobility. Featured projects may include new devices for moving through space, mobile media that depend on the user's movement through space, or examinations of the power needed for mobility and/or question the need for speed. Theoretical presentations may address the mobility of people, goods and ideas.

dealing with interactive or responsive environments in relation to mobile media that depend on the user's movement through space, would allow for the balloons to be classified a s mobile media-making them responsive and autonomous ina choreographed ecology would address the communication intent being dependent on the users movement through space. This movement or participation in the activated space could in itself be the communication. The balloons movements being analogous to murmurating birds,undersea ecologies or a dream like trans-formative event.

thinking also about the balloon museum project
Balloon Museum:
Site Projects and performances relating to flight, weather, technology sponsored by Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Museum