Symposium Collateral Design - Print and Interactive
From Silence is a symposium celebrating the legacy of Mystic Minimalism through the work of its three key proponents—Henryk Gorécki, Sir John Tavener, and Arvo Pärt.
Situated at the Rothko Chapel →, the Symposium would take place over the final days of Christian Holy Week, three days with particular liturgical poignancy in relation to the work of the composers. Accompanied by lectures and discussion panels, the symposium highlight would consist of a 12-foot octagonal installation onto which would be projected live graphics created in response to the acoustics of live performances of the composers' works in the space.
2016 — Instructor: Brad Bartlett — Print / Web / Interactive Installation
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The symposium's graphic identity was created using Processing. I wrote a processing sketch that would generate smoke-like graphics based on data points from a song's tempo and pitch. The songs used to create the graphics were: The Protecting Veil: Lament of the Mother of God at the Foot of the Cross (Tavener), Symphony No.3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Gorecki), and Für Alina (Pärt).
Using HP's augmented reality app Aurasma on a mobile device or iPad, the posters are brought to life with a song from the highlighted composer and smoke-like graphics created by the song's tempo and pitch.
The symposium booklet, given to each attendee, contains the symposium's schedule of events, biographies on the three composers, and accompanying lyrical texts to the pieces being performed (when it applied).
The installation is an 8-foot prototype of what would be a 12-foot architectural piece in the Rothko Chapel. With a slight convex shape, the octagon is projected upon by the smoke-like graphics created in real time in response to the acoustic qualities of the performance (tempo and pitch). For each of the three main pieces, several lines of text from the song or prayer momentarily appear amidst the "smoke."
Mounted behind the octagon is a second projector which beams colored light to be diffused to the edges of the octagon and create a luminous glow. The hue ranges from a cool blue to a warm magenta. The hue increases in warmth as the Kinect motion sensor detects the proximity of an observer getting closer to the octagon.