We've not had too much summery weather in the UK this year,
but in any case, there's been a few nice occasions for sunglasses and strawberries!
Black Box by Absolut - "Frequency"
After a full month of prototyping, soldering and assembling, we finally showcased our installation "Frequency" at the Sónar+D festival in Barcelona last week!
The project was kindly sponsored by Absolut and the initial brief was offered to the RCA Information Experience Design programme. We designed a sensory experience consisting of vibrations and light, where each colour from a wall of LED strips was mapped to various sound frequencies. We placed a speaker in each of the 16 plinths that made up our floor and sent a different frequency to each speaker, thus creating a floorspace where each plinth was vibrating slightly differently, inviting you to walk across the floor and explore the different vibrations whilst being immersed in colours that changed as you walk across the tiles.
It was a great experience to put up a major installation for the first time and to see the public engaging with it, particularly interesting to see how some people found certain frequencies more relaxing than others. I worked on all the tech related to the project, i.e. the wiring of the LED strips, working on the Max MSP patch that controlled both the frequencies and the colour changes, and the wiring of the speakers, whilst my classmate Robert Thorpe was in charge of the build of the plinths and the design of the structure. We got lots of help and guidance from our tutor Laura Ferrarello, and Matt Clarke from UVA (pictured below with me and Rob) also kindly lent us some DMX controllers for the project.
The first few photos are from the lovely people at 25gramos from an article they published about our piece whilst the other two photos were kindly sent to us by photographer Pepe Molina from Cromagnon.
The Black Box by Absolut - Making Of Video
A short video I put together for to be used for press for our upcoming exhibition at Sónar+D in Barcelona this June (with sponsorship from Absolut) is now up on the RCA Information Experience Design Vimeo page:
Black Box for Sónar
I'm in the middle of working on a large-scale sensory installation project at the RCA in collaboration with my classmate Robert Thorpe for the Sónar festival in Barcelona in June, thanks to sponsorship from Absolut.
The project will be a 4x4 grid of plinths with a speaker inside each box, creating a vibrating floor that you can walk across whilst simultaneously changing the colours of a series of LED strips on the wall.
I'm in charge of the technical aspects of the installation while Rob is focusing on the build, and I'm currently working on the wiring of the LED strips and mapping colour to sound using Max MSP. More images to follow soon!
The project will be a 4x4 grid of plinths with a speaker inside each box, creating a vibrating floor that you can walk across whilst simultaneously changing the colours of a series of LED strips on the wall.
I'm in charge of the technical aspects of the installation while Rob is focusing on the build, and I'm currently working on the wiring of the LED strips and mapping colour to sound using Max MSP. More images to follow soon!
Easter Chickens
Some bright coloured Easter chicken patterns, trying out pastels and different colour sets...
Work in Progress GIFs
I've got roughly 3 weeks left until my first year film at the RCA is due,
so I'm getting fairly close to the end!
In the meantime here are some GIFs from some of the completed shots...
Screen Printing
I got to try screen printing for the first time earlier this week at the RCA Battersea campus!
I had a full-day workshop led by screen printing technician Damon Rostron,
and drew an abstract triangle pattern onto one layer of drawing film and one layer of rubylith
before exposing both layers onto the screen.
I had a full-day workshop led by screen printing technician Damon Rostron,
and drew an abstract triangle pattern onto one layer of drawing film and one layer of rubylith
before exposing both layers onto the screen.
