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Origin 

(2011) 

is the latest development in United Visual Artists' exploration of large-scale responsive LED sculpture. A responsive installation meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form. Score by Scanner.

Origin is the latest installation by United Visual Artists (UVA) to explore and create large-scale responsive LED sculptures. Built from 125 two-meter cubic spaces, Origin is at once both a sculpture and a living being. Linear LED strips are mounted in the cubic lattice network and controlled via computer in a multitude of patterns, rhythms and moods. There are different programs for when Origin powers up, is thinking, working hard, arguing, sleeping, breathing, resting, singing, and much more. Scanner composed the original score for the installation and the lighting was designed to accompany it.

 

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Hedged between the two Bridges on Brooklyn’s shore, a 10m x 10m cube of light both disrupts and reflects the City, eliciting an emotional reaction from those that enter its realm. Origin is the culmination of a series of works derived from Orchestrion, the main stage design created by United Visual Artists for Coachella 2011.

Origin is the product of a collaboration between United Visual Artists and Scanner, who composed the score.

 

Source: United Visual Artists

 

 

Origin, architecture, london, design, LED, Installation

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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)

Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film 1910-1975 (1979) is a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in London from 3 May until 17 June 1979 on rare, essential and controversial avant-garde film history.

Digital Harmony (1980): On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art – John Whitney, Sr. wanted to create a dialog between "the voices of light and tone." All of his early experiments in film and the development of sound techniques lead toward this end. He felt that music was an integral part of the visual experience; the combination had a long history in man's primitive development and was part of the essence of life. His theories On the complementarity of Music and Visual Art were explained in his book, Digital Harmony, published by McGraw-Hill in 1980. (Paradise 2012)

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