lab 212 – passifolia

Passifolia is an audiovisual installation by Lab 212, exhibited in Paris in 2020. Visitors enter a dark and hazy room shaped by 16 vertical light beams. When one steps into a light beam, a camera sensor detects the change in pixels, the light beam widens, and directional speakers play a pre-composed melody of bird songs and ambient nature sounds, and the beam narrows again. I appreciate how this invites the visitor to explore the space and relish in the sounds of nature, literally spotlighted. While the sound itself is not computationally generated, the layers of signal processing are numerous (i.e. sending a Midi note to Ableton Live, to the light projector, and to the directional speakers).