Chromaticaster
NA0006
Optic-music instrument
Artist: Nourathar Studio
Authors: Caen Botto & Marta Rupérez
Date: 2019
Medium: Interactive, optical illusion in vintage TV. Mixed media.
Dimensions: · Display: 42,5(h) x 54,5(w) x 25(d) cm
· Keyboard: 79.5(h) x 59(w) x 12(d) cm
· Speakers: 30.5(h) x 12(w) x 12(d) cm
Unique within a series of 3
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Chromaticaster offers a new interpretation of light organs which explore different levels of synesthetic correspondences.
The notes on the keyboard are associated with colours and objects that appear in the viewer. These three-dimensional shapes generate the illusion of proceeding from an infinitely distant sound source, they act as a visual representation of the movement of sound through space.
Chromaticaster transforms a classic TV and a keyboard, into an interactive controller of musical & optical illusion.
Historical Light Organs, include Mary Hallock Greenewalt’s Sarabet, where the correspondence between colour & sound depended on the interpreter, or Thomas Wilfred’s Lumia, which presented silent light compositions in motion.
Custom application developed in Max/MSP/Jitter by Caen Botto
Cabinet of Hypnosophical Curiosities exhibition by Nourathar Studio.
