Grace Cha-Looking Outwards-11

Amanda Ghassaei on vimeo

While looking at pages of really amazing videos, I was drawn to Amanda Ghasseai’s Ambient Synthesis designed 4 years ago, which is a interactive sound sculpture that responds to light stimuli to construct a unique, audiovisual interpretation of its environment.  From the vimeo video, the wide range of light intensity seems to affect the sound in different ways.  The data from the surroundings is interpreted by aMaxMSP application to produce abstract symmetrical patterns.

I enjoy the organic nature of this concept as it uses its surroundings to make sounds.  This is a interetsing mixture of madmade computer music controlled by nature, and I think it does a good job smoothly integrating both aspects into a coheretn piece.

I also have to point out Amanda’s videotography and the wide range of landscapes she chose to showcase her work to gather different light.  This really helped me to immidietly understand what was going on.