»SphèrAléas« 
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© scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
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»SphèrAléas«, 2004
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Technology
Hardware
interactive devicetactile sensors
computer
videoprojectors
sound system 5.1
Installation Requirements / Space
Size: 5x5x3mMaterial
fabric, wood, metal, mirrorSoftware
synthesis software for sound and abstract images
Descriptions & Essays
SphèrAléas
Tridimensional interactive / sound / image installation
SphèrAléas is made of a half-spherical structure and of an evolutionary device wich makes man, image and sound interact thanks to digital tools. SphèrAléas is ideal for collective performances. It's a safe space of oneiric creations in which the public creates, handles, juxtaposes, superimposes sonorous, pictural shapes unstable and reactive.
Like for the learning of a musical instrument, people must take time to experiment it. Collectively, they must pay particular attention to compose a melody. Spectators are sitting around a hearth which is materialized by a hemispherical mirror. They can manipulate sensitive device in order to create visual and sonorous symphonies. By manipulating the sensors, the spectator-musician can continuously intervene on the whole structure by playing with the different variables: order, side-by-side positioning, overlapping, speed, rhythm, harmonic pitch… It is a kind of orchestra : there is a conductor who guides musicians, and coordinates the organization of visual and sonorous objects.
The scenography is designed for complete immersion of the spectator thanks to interactive sensors, a multipoint sound diffusion, a video projection system (180°), within a half spherical membranous architecture. This original shared experiment becomes a poem of sensations: inside this womb-like space, sensitive perceptions are amplified, modified until a multitude of unexpected metaphorical worlds resonate.
SpherAleas is made of a half-spherical structure and of an evolutionary device wich makes man, image ans sound interact thanks to digital tools. The machine becomes the creator’s ally to produce pictural and sonorous shapes.
Literature
Lanfranco Aceti, Janis Jefferies and Irini Papadimitriou. Touch and Go / Leonardo Volume 18 Issue 3 / Edition LEA. Goldsmiths College: Goldsmiths College, 2012.
Lasserre, Grégory and Anaïs met den Ancxt. »SphèrAléas. Tridimensional interactive/sound/image installation.« In MULTIMEDIA '07: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Multimedia, edited by Rainer Lienhart and Anand Prasad, 363-364. New York: ACM, 2007.
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