Foggy Messy was 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. As you enter into a very dim space it takes time for your eyes to adjust to the six different light sculptures that are spread throughout the room. Within a close proximity the shape of their beams become visible.
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 is a generative piece of music that uses harmonic series math to move through tuning systems. It loops an 8 note melody over 54 seconds time; repeating with slight variations each cycle.
Max/MSP for sound and high level light control; openFrameworks providing a custom LED protocol to a networked collection of Teensys.
