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Creating "Alien Architecture" With Light And Sound

Installation Bbass uses graphic projection and sound to turn a grand auditorium into an abstract space.

When it comes to having a visual impact on the viewer, a simple set of monochrome colours and minimalist sounds can be just as effective as bursts of color and pounding noise. It really depends on your mood. The installation below, called Bbass, uses minimalism to powerful effect in a collaboration from German artist Florian Licht and design agency SAQ. It uses animation, projection, sound, and architecture to turn a grand interior into a giant glowing bass bin that comes alive, humming and pulsing like some strange alien aircraft, droning in ambient light and sound, merging the virtual and the real into an abstract experience.

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The work was shown at the Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium earlier this year, alongside work from many other light artists including Pablo Valbuena who created an augmented skin on the Ghent University Rectorate using light projection, while the Bbass piece transformed the University’s auditorium in the Aula Academica into a canvas for minimalist audio/visual expression.

[via Triangulation blog]

Images courtesy of Flickr user gauthierdumonde