LO 04: VOLUME by SOFTlab, NY 2017

Volume, as described by the author is an interactive cube of responsive mirrors that redirect light and sound responsive to the surrounding movement. The installation commissioned by HP consists of a square grid of 100 mirrored panels with individually addressable LED lights sandwiched along the vertical sides. These panels are mounted on posts with rotating motors. The installation comes to life when the panels rotate and align to human movement, where the human becomes the attractor point for the mirrors to align and face. The sound transmission is also controlled tracing the attractor point and the light in turn react to the sound produced by the panels. This interconnected network of reactive movement and sound fills the atmosphere around the installation. To trace the human motion, array of depth camera is used and identify them as points. Much like the mouseX and mouseY used to locate the mouse pointer. The position tracking uses 6 Kinetic V2 cameras to identify blobs and depth image is retrieved using KineticPV2 library.

Volume UI from SOFTlab on Vimeo.