D’Art Buoy is a site-specific multimedia installation that interacts with the D.U.M.B.O. waterfront. It is composed of a buoy anchored in the East River bank, of lights and sound that combined help create a fully immersive and embracing environment.
The electronic device, attached to a glowing buoyant platform, contains an accelerometer to interpret the movements of the water current and a microcontroller to collect and transmit the information through a ZigBee module to a nearby computer. The computer will then elaborate the values received to manipulate and to create audio.
The audio of this installation combines natural sounds together with multiple instruments and manipulates them through the use of live data feeds from the NOAA website and from the East River buoy. The Max/MSP Jitter patch takes the wave height readings coming from the river bank and from an actual NOAA buoy anchored in the Indian Ocean and uses them to create music in real time. The undulation and direction of the waves control volume and speed of the audio and select the different instruments and samples being played, as if you were listening to waves crashing on a beach accompanied by an orchestra of percussive instruments and digital synthesizers.
The inspiration behind D’Art Buoy comes from a very personal relationship with these waters and through this installation I hope to focus the visitors’ attention to the river and broadcast live its presence and voice in multiple locations simultaneously.
Created, designed and executed by Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis
Music conception, composition and performance by Alex Giorgetti, Ben Murphy and Andy McCarthy
Recorded by Jess Dunlap, Conrad Osipowicz @ WERS Studios
Mixed by Mike Davidson and Alex Giorgetti
Produced by Alex Giorgetti
Audio-engineering, programming and composition by Gadi Sassoon
The electronic device, attached to a glowing buoyant platform, contains an accelerometer to interpret the movements of the water current and a microcontroller to collect and transmit the information through a ZigBee module to a nearby computer. The computer will then elaborate the values received to manipulate and to create audio.
The audio of this installation combines natural sounds together with multiple instruments and manipulates them through the use of live data feeds from the NOAA website and from the East River buoy. The Max/MSP Jitter patch takes the wave height readings coming from the river bank and from an actual NOAA buoy anchored in the Indian Ocean and uses them to create music in real time. The undulation and direction of the waves control volume and speed of the audio and select the different instruments and samples being played, as if you were listening to waves crashing on a beach accompanied by an orchestra of percussive instruments and digital synthesizers.
The inspiration behind D’Art Buoy comes from a very personal relationship with these waters and through this installation I hope to focus the visitors’ attention to the river and broadcast live its presence and voice in multiple locations simultaneously.
Created, designed and executed by Benedetta Piantella Simeonidis
Music conception, composition and performance by Alex Giorgetti, Ben Murphy and Andy McCarthy
Recorded by Jess Dunlap, Conrad Osipowicz @ WERS Studios
Mixed by Mike Davidson and Alex Giorgetti
Produced by Alex Giorgetti
Audio-engineering, programming and composition by Gadi Sassoon
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