Foggy Messy is a hazy site specific light and sound installation inside of Bingo Gallery in Albuquerque, NM. These past few years I've been experimenting with various ways of shaping light through haze in dim spaces and this work is a continuation that exploration.
The primary idea behind this method of shaping light requires creating a thin channel for an LED to pass through. By funneling each LED of an LED strip through a a channel, each LED can be directed to leave through it's own aperture. The installation has six different aperture shapes and is connected to a global program that choreographs the light and sound.
The sound that is programmed in a generative piece of music that uses harmonic series math to move through tuning systems.
Under the hood it's Max/MSP doing sound and high level light control and openFrameworks handling a custom LED protocol to a networked collection of Teensys.
