Infinitude. A circular lighting experience
Client: QuLighting
Dates: 2023
Location: Milan
Category: Visual Design
Tags: Lighting Design / Sound Design
In the exhibition space set up by Qu lighting in the Brera district for Fuorisalone Milan 2023, we created an audio-lighting installation, Infinitude. A circular lighting experience, making use of analog LED strips controlled via MadMapper, and synchronously producing 15 hours of Universe-themed sound track.
The project, an interactive led mapping with sound, intended to introduce the client to the company and its products, making them experience light. It was therefore a lighting design and sound art installation, a plunge into sound and light experimentation, a unique opportunity to explore new expressive possibilities, reflecting on the relationship between sound, space and the universe, in collaboration with Giovanni Zampiga of FabbricaFotoGrafica.
We acquired sound samples of the cosmos from NASA’s open source database, which we reworked and artfully assembled with the light show to animate Qu’s site-specific installations designed by architects Parisotto+Formenton and Lighting Company.
The goal of the performance was to engage the audience in an all-encompassing emotional and sensory journey, guiding them through the courtyard and then inviting them to sit on circular seats, illuminated by pulsating lights that mimicked the alternation of satellites on the orbits of planets. The tour continued in the indoor hall, which housed pieces from the Magritte collection, arranged in luminous constellations with striking aesthetic appeal. The experience ended in the greenhouse, where lights and plants created iridescent atmospheres, reminding us of the permeability that characterizes and unites light and nature.
The sounds evolved throughout the day along with the intensity of the LEDs as the ambient light changed. In fact, the show was divided into four acts: morning, afternoon, sunset and night.
Technology
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MadMapper / Adobe Premiere / Ableton
Credits
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Partners
Parisotto+Formenton
Light Company
Giovanni Zampiga
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Sound Designer
Francesco Angelini
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Service
T-Service