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Lumière III

Lumière III

Lumière III

This is Lumière III by Robert Henke. It is a audiovisual laser performance, in which an algorithm generates laser curves to bounce off the pre-designed spaces in the auditorium to create series of visual effect, including geometries, curves, lights, colors, etc. Sound also generated from the lasers. A dedicated sound synthesis engine was built for this particular project. Therefore, the artist built a custom algorithm for generating sound.

I appreciate that the algorithm generates both visual and sonic effect. Therefore, changing the laser would make change to both of them. From the geometries and colors, the observer can guess what the sound would be, because certain shapes and colors probably represent certain aspects of music. (eg. red represent dramatic emotion, etc). I thought the randomness of the lasers, and the random yet inter-connected visual and sonic effect generated by it is very interesting.

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