Light Leaks - Filling a room with projected light / by @kcimc + @halfdanj Created by Kyle McDonald and Jonas Jongejan for the CLICK Festival 2013 in Elsinore, Denmark, Light Leaks is a light installation comprised of fifty mirror balls projecting controlled light in the room. The general idea was to make use of found objects, in this case mirror balls, which as Kyle explains to CAN have a fairly chaotic structure compared to the perfect grid of a projected image we are accustomed to. Having been influenced by Kyle’s work with Joanie Lemercier at ScreenLab in Manchester last year , where he learned how important peripheral vision can be in creating an immersive experience, Light Leaks is an attempt to fill a room with projected light in a way that can’t be achieved with projectors alone. The pile of fifty balls sites in the centre of the room that has three projectors pointed at them. Optically, this is much related to Kyle’s work with Elliot Woods earlier this year, ExR3 . Kyle McDonald | Jonas Jongejan | More images on Flickr | Code on GitHUb
MirrorFugue - Music collaboration across space and time / by @xiaosquared @medialab MirrorFugue is a Ph.D. research project by Xiao Xiao at the MIT Media Lab, exploring communicating gesture in music collaboration across space and time. The project is comprised of a set of interfaces for piano to visualise the gesture of a performance. Based on the idea that the visibility of gesture contributes to learning and synchronisation, MirrorFugue displays the hand and body movements of piano playing using metaphors from the physical world to connect musicians from disparate spaces and times – and you can even play with yourself from the past. We designed two modes to visualize the hand gesture of a performance, which we term “Reflection” and “Organ”. Inspired by the reflective surface on a lacquered grand piano that mirrors the keyboard and player’s hands, Reflection mode shows the mirrored keyboard and hands of a performance. Organ mode displays the unaltered, top-town image of the collaborator’s keyboard like the aligned and offset keyboards of an organ.