Gyrotope
Pablo Valbuena · light and sound spatialisation · 2016 · KM1 Grand Paris Express, Paris · Nuit Blanche, Brussels
Our role Creation and control tools, light and LEDs, sound.
A large circle of columns forms a sculptural volume that unfolds in time. Light and sound are its material, and it applies the sequencing of cinema to space. Walk around it: it is an object; step inside: it becomes an environment.
We designed the light and sound spatialisation system: each column is both a light source and a loudspeaker, and everything is animated and triggered from a single timeline, so the work plays identically every night, outdoors.
Commissioned by Grand Paris Express for KM1, the launch celebration of the construction works, Paris, 5 June 2016, then Nuit Blanche Brussels, 1 October 2016.
Credits
- Artist Pablo Valbuena
- Executive production Hannah Standen
- Light and sound spatialisation Hand Coded: Cyril Laurier, Jesse Watts, Maya Benaïnous
- Production Société du Grand Paris
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Team
- Pablo Valbuena · Artist, light, space and perception
- Cyril Laurier · Co-founder. PhD in music AI, Sony CSL researcher.
- Jesse Watts · Sound engineer and drone pilot
- Maya Benaïnous · Co-founder. Artist and engineer, creator of Ledotron.
