Forest II - update 3 .. midi controller is done

here is it :



after some hard work and help from people around it is done: my norwegian wood controller..
born for the installation forest II... im quite happy with it - and again big thanks to the owl project for showing me this way : ) contact me if youre interested in how i did it..

i realised that i actually build i microforest within the macroforest...depending on the perspective. dont you think ? have look yourself:



isnt that cute, or what ??

alexandre

work in progress ---- Forest II --- UPDATE 2

Forest II - Cellular automato midi controller:



here you see the start of my first selfmade midi-controller. it is going to be housed in a tree trunk (which you can already see >>> big up to the owl project who got me thinking about the whole thing.. check them out on myspace !!). the trunk is a rather special piece of wood, since my partner, girlfriend and lover woman merete found it in the norwegian woods, right where she used to be a boyscout.. we took it out of the forest and then it flew with me to germay...... so what is it for ? there are eight faders, which are supposed to influence the cellular automata digital organism, which is in return influencing the light of the installation.. i made the soldering with a lot of help from a guy called martin bellardi.. he is a genius.. i am a happy man, now : )

work in progress ---- Forest II --- UPDATE

today was a good day.. phew.. ! i never worked on such a big project..
it is at least 20 people involved.. then there is technical crew and all that ..
wow ! .. im spending most of my times programming .. which is a lot of fun
for me, since it is not what i do all the time.. just a l0t.. it is so amazing to
work on such a scale: the venue is at least 15 meters high and about 3o meters
long.. i get to work with 16 speakers, two of them are massive subwoofer with
4000 Watts.. then there is a pair of speaker on the rig, about 1o meter high up in
the air... its fantastic !!!!
today we managed to get some tracking together, so i programmed a matrix that will allow to place six individual sounds in space according to motion information of two cameras.. i was happy for achieving this. .. there is more to it, which i might explain later.. two things to conclude.. .. im so grateful to be creating a listening
experience on this scale.. its spatial audio information heaven : )) .. and here is two images of two dancer rehearsing in the installation ... (sorry, since i took them with my phone : ))