Justin Yook – Looking Outwards 04

Yuri Suzuki Design collaborated with High Atlanta to create the Sonic Playground, an outdoors display of sound-interactive sculptures. There are a total of six steel sculptures, and they manipulate sound depending on where visitors stand, listen, and talk. The calculations for each sculpture’s optimization were done with the softwares: Grasshopper, and Rhinoceros 3D; Grasshopper is a software for writing programs visually, and Rhinoceros 3D is for making 3D models. Combination of both softwares allowed the creators to control sound source, direction of the sound, and reflect sound from various sculpture pieces. The creator’s artistic sense is shown through the distinct shapes of the sculptures, and the bright colors added to them in order to make the sculptures seem more fun. I think that this project is interesting because of how interactive it can be; the idea of allowing people to interact by moving around the sculptures adds a new dimension to sound art.

Source: http://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/sonic-playground-playful-acoustics-by-yuri-suzuki-design/