DESIGN NAME: Musical Landscapes and the Goddess
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Happening; New Interfaces; Exhibition
INSPIRATION: -Building Bridges between Traditional Cultures and Technology based Cultures
-Exploring the Power of Music to create 'solitude' and calm in a technology centric world.
-Explore Human Unity
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Musical Landscapes and the Goddesses of Music is an exhibition presenting advances in interactive art through an exploration of the science, art and spirituality of Music, and its reflections in the Goddess images across Asian cultures.
Through a collection of interactive exhibits employing new musical synthesis based on traditional grammar, interactive multimedia installations and recordings of performances by masters, the project allows viewers to enter the world of sound, musical landscapes, and its cultural and spiritual aesthetics.
The project presents both traditional and new instruments based on Indian Sitar, Burmese Saung Harp, Thai Xylophone, Korean Kayagum, Chinese Guzheng and Pipa, Vietnamese Dan Tranh, Javanese & Balinese Gamelan, chanting, and others. New instruments with embedded computation demonstrate interactions through gesture, touch, pull, movement, gaze and kinesthetic action. In addition, through responsive computing, people by their position, gesture, and movements control musical events in the exhibition environment.
Taken in total, the ideas presented present a vision for the design of society centered on Innovation, Well Being and Compassion.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Gesture based computing interfaces; Physical computing.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: National Museum, New Delhi
November 28 2013- January 15 2014
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Visual art, Sculpture, Traditional and New Instruments, Custom electronics, Music synthesis, Gesture interfaces.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 1000 sq meter Museum exhibition.
TAGS: Cultural computing, Gesture Interfaces
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The Musical Landscapes and the Goddesses of Music is an exhibition presenting advances in interactive art through an exploration of the science, art and spirituality of Music, and its reflections in the Goddess images across Asian cultures.
Through a collection of interactive exhibits employing new musical synthesis based on traditional grammar, interactive multimedia installations and recordings of performances by masters, the project allows viewers to enter the world of sound, musical landscapes, and its cultural and spiritual aesthetics.
The project presents both traditional and new instruments based on Indian Sitar, Burmese Saung Harp, Thai Xylophone, Korean Kayagum, Chinese Guzheng and Pipa, Vietnamese Dan Tranh, Javanese & Balinese Gamelan, chanting, and others. New instruments with embedded computation demonstrate interactions through gesture, touch, pull, movement, gaze and kinesthetic action. In addition, through responsive computing, people by their position, gesture, and movements control musical events in the exhibition environment.
Taken in total, the ideas presented present a vision for the design of society centered on Innovation, Well Being and Compassion.
CHALLENGE: -To show the connection between the form of the Goddess and Music.
-To show a diverse panorama of Asian instruments, and achieve sufficient enough of cultural compression to re evoke the whole.
-To subtly embed technology augmentation in sensing and interaction so as not to over power the traditional instruments.
ADDED DATE: 2014-02-19 03:15:40
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