Looking Outwards 04 – Sound Art

Urban Lights Contacts is an interactive sound and light installation by Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt). The installation is composed of a small interactive sphere. When a person puts his or her hand on the sphere, the body turns reactive and sensitive to other living bodies. When the person touching the sphere has a physical contact with another person, the installation starts emitting sounds. Each contact of each person generates varieties of different sounds. What this installation is doing is sensing the body’s electrostatic energy and emitting them as sounds. What’s interesting and unique about this installation is that it creates a sensory interactive experience with what we cannot detect in the eye. Encouraging people to have interactive contacts with other people they don’t know also gives a total unique experience. The interactive device generates a very sensitive approach of the body, recognizing different degrees of electrostatic contacts according to the proximates of living bodies. What I find interesting is that different people produce different electrostatic energy, which also makes the installation emit different sounds as well. The artists of this installation really focus on the interactive experience, an experience people cannot see but can hear and feel through the installation.