LO4: Sound Art

Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well, Transcending Space is a visual and audio interactive installation by teamLab. In this installation, the audience enters a room with projections of crows on all sides of the room. As the crows start flying, the music begins, and when the crows crash into each other’s path, they scatter, turning into flowers. This installation excites me greatly as the surround sound and projections make it seem like the viewer is encompassed by the artwork, slowly becoming one with it. As I watched the video, I could imagine myself losing touch of reality, being immersed in the projected world, fully focused on the crows taking flight and mentally swaying to the energetic, yet soothing music. As the installation is constantly generated, each sequence of music and motion will not be repeated, thus, creating a sense of intriguing uncertainty, which I greatly admire and enjoy. Although it did not specify how the sound and animation is created from coding, I speculate that the installation is done by using loops, random functions, and if statements. The whole installation might be an infinite loop, and embedded in the loop, might be some if statements and random functions to generate variety while maintaining a certain framework. The artist’s sensibility is thus manifest in the generation of numerous sequences of sounds and animations harmoniously coming to life. 

Link: https://www.teamlab.art/w/crows_transcending_space/

Creator: teamLab

Title of Work: Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows are Destined to be Chased as well, Transcending Space

Year: 2017