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Immersive music, mapping, and interactive art on Villa Titoni Traverse, controlled by tablets and smartphones.

Visual Sound Building

Industry
Arts & Culture
Type
Immersive / Interactive / Installation / Projection Mapping
Technique
Creative Code / Real-Time Graphics

For 2012th edition of the Kernel Festival, Tigrelab was invited to take part with a dedicated piece. The festival is famous for mixing electronic music, audiovisual mapping, digital and interactive art. In honor of it, we created the “Visual Sound Building”. It was an interactive video mapping controlled by the audience using tablets and smartphones. It was projected on the north facade of the villa Titoni Traverse in Desio, close to Milan (Italy).

 

As if it were a giant synthesiser, the windows of the villa act as buttons that activate and deactivate the sounds of the musical composition and modify the algorithm that generates the visuals. The façade thereby becomes a tool for musical and visual creation which is controlled entirely by the audience using three tablets or their mobile devices.

Process

It was a giant synthesizer, the windows of the villa acted as buttons that activated and deactivated the sounds of a musical composition modifying the algorithm generated by the visuals. The facade thereby became a tool for musical and visual creation controlled entirely by the audience using the three tablets or their mobile devices.
In this project, the mapping was our way to link the architectural rhythm of the facade with the rhythm of the music. Our project drew it’s inspiration from CGA graphics as well as films, music and video games from the 80s. For this project, we received a sponsorship and assistance from VDMX5 software.