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Orchestrion / Conductor 

(2011) 

by United Visual Artists was created as a redesign for the main stage for Coachella 2011, creating both a platform for performance and a standalone light and sound sculpture.

Orchestrion is a collaboration with composer Mira Calix.

Featuring sliding doors, the 64m3 cubic structure opens for bands to perform in it, and closes as part of its own performance taking place at set times during the three day festival.

 

The design of Orchestrion evolved into a new work for Nuits Sonores in France. A gateway to the festival, Conductor draws visitors into its environment like a magnetic force field, as if it were collecting energy from passersby to generate power for the event itself.

Light forms resembling current running through electrical components or power plants will be accompanied by an original score by British composer Scanner.

 

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Orchestrion / Conductor, architecture, london, design, Installation

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Audiovisuology: See this sound (2010) - An Interdisciplinary Compendium of Audiovisual Culture. This all-embracing compendium brings together texts on various art forms in which the relationship between sound and image plays a significant role and the techniques used in linking the two. The entire spectrum of audiovisual art and phenomena is presented in 35 dictionary entries. (Cornerhouse)

Notations 21 (2009) by Theresa Sauer features illustrated musical scores from more than 100 international composers, all of whom are making amazing breakthroughs in the art of notation. Notations 21 is a celebration of innovations in musical notation, employing an appreciative aesthetic for both the aural and visual beauty of these creations. The musical scores in this edition were created by composers whose creativity could not be confined by the staff and clef of traditional western notation, but whose musical language can communicate with the contemporary audience in a uniquely powerful way. (Notations 21 Project)

Grid Index (2009) by Carsten Nicolai is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. (Gestalten)

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