Random players

An interesting activity has been staged on Saturday as one aspect of the Huddersfield Light Festival. Some devices was playing a quaint and unique melody among the winds at St. Peter's Garden. What attracted me was not only the audio performance, but also the exciting methods making this.

These instruments were not played by any human control. One principle of them, someone in the town told me, was they captured the force and direction of winds and represented it with unique sound for each condition of the winds. This is brilliant because the velocity and direction varies every moment. By that reason several instruments can reveal tremendous random sounds. Of cause the sound effect was created to harmonise the audio rendering. However it feels fabulous when I realised it is played by natural forces.

This might be just one segment of the base reason of these things. Because when I when to the official website of Ray Lee, inventor of this category of instruments, it is said the cause of the sound is 'These intersecting lights trace rings above the heads of the audience, while the combined chorus of the spinning speakers creates a cohesive harmonious whole, ‘a sticky flux’ that is both uplifting and transfixing.' (Lee,2008)

No matter what made these instruments move, it was an intelligent idea. Cause random factors can always create unpredictable art works. And this is an adorable topic to explore.

Reference

Lee, R. (2008) Chorus. Retrieved from http://www.invisible-forces.com/ray%20lee%20-%20projects.htm