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Posted October 22nd 2007 under Installations, Light, Processing, Sound
(concept image)
Usman Haque has been commissioned to create Evoke for the Illuminating York festival. You can see the work from on Fri 26 Oct until Sat 3 Nov, from 6-11pm. From the website…
“Evoke is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, which will light up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought to life by members of the public, who use their own voices to “evoke” colourful light patterns that emerge at the building’s foundations and soar up towards the sky, giving the surface a magical feeling as it melts with colour.
The cathedral, built to link conceptually earth to the heavens, has been a site for the conveyance of words, dreams and aspirations for hundreds of years. The facade is designed to orient the gazes of passers-by upwards. As an attempt to continue this tradition, the patterns of Evoke are generated in realtime by the words, sounds, music and noises produced collectively by the public, determined by their particular voice characteristics. The colours will skim the surface of the Minster, pour round its features and crevasses, emerging finally near the top of the facade where they will sparkle high overhead.
People with voices of different frequencies, rhythms or cadences will be able to evoke quite different magical patterns upon the surface of the building - a staccato chirping will result in a completely different set of visual effects to a long howl for example, blending old and new to continue animating the facade of the Minster.”
Created using Processing.
I’ll update this post after the event once photos and video emerge of the final work.
Comments
(October 25th 2007)
hi,
ha! even the descriptive words can make me smile , great! nothing better than this to say hi to halloween, ha! i wish i were there , and i ‘ll scream like Monch, ha ! “evoke “? yeah , awake the evils hidden for years within the minster-crazy joy , ha !
i just received a distant call from my friend in Brisbane yesterday,she migrated there one month ago, i’m so glad to hear her voice. yes, i should let her know this magic show. thanks !
smiling ~^*…, shall people carry something like speakerphone to shout, ha ! humans vs evils, ha ! the most exciting thing for me , this time, the triger is our voice , noises, sounds …., in an open air ( a real world )not in computer, ha !! chris, what’s the differences comparing to the audio visualization which visuals interactive with sound automatically in computer sapce ? how “evoke ” can listen clearly to all those different sounds , i mean that’s not just a music , instead so messy, unpredictable sound source…
your first time to japan? have a delightful trip , bye !
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