Looking Outwards 10

Since my LO-4 assignment focused on a form of sound art, I chose the option to investigate a piece of music that you could hear in a concert hall. Which in this case, actually took place in one. I was drawn to this project because it wasn’t just auditory, but also a beautiful visual experience as well. The Stanford Laptop Orchestra used SLork musical lanterns that communicate with ChucK via wifi to translate the movements of the lanterns into sound and light.

The musical performance was called “Aura” since they used multiple people with different light color and sounds that harmonized with one another in a similar way that people do in society. I thought it was a very clever and interesting way to create music through movement.