koi light projections...
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Quantum Space
Interactive installation by Sodazot fills entire room, allowing all participants presence to become colourful particles:
Entering this room you are disintegrating into quantums of light and communicating with universe. This is a digital meditation. Walls in this room are full covered by interactive projections. Abstract visualizations generated realtime from all movements of participants and from some automated parameters.
Source: vimeo.com
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Projections by Aakash Nihalani
Source: eyescreamsunday.com
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But…what about learning to read sheet music?
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What about it?
Boo fucking hoo, technology is making music more accessible and removing the barriers associated with sheet music. Fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch.
Yes, I said barriers.
Not everyone is great at reading sheet music. I started playing piano when I was four and I still absolutely SUCK at sheet music. It’s just never clicked for me. I can identify notes, given enough time, but it takes me forever to learn a new piece, I often have to literally mark what a note is, and sight-reading is incredibly far beyond me. If I had access to this, maybe I would still be playing piano instead of just letting it gather dust in the spare room. Maybe I would still be improving my skills. Heck, maybe I could use it as a tool to IMPROVE MY SHEET MUSIC READING.
Think of how accessible this makes piano music to the sight-impaired. How much easier it is to see those colored bars and lit keys than the little dots on little lines on a page.
Stairs didn’t go out of style because we invented escalators. Books didn’t go out of style because Kindles are a thing. Sheet music isn’t going to just up and vanish because there’s a new alternative on the block. You can keep playing from sheet music if that’s your thing, and people will keep learning from it.
But I can see this being fantastic for people who sheet music just really isn’t their thing, because of accessibility or other reasons.
3D projections on trees...
Unit Training Film 1: Warm Moving Bodies
One of America's first electronic new wave bands, The Units are widely cited as pioneers of a genre now known as "synthpunk." The Unit Training Film #1, produced by bandmembers Scott Ryser and Rachel Webber in 1980, was compiled from films that the band projected during their live performances. The films were satirical, instructional films critical of conformity and consumerism, compiled from found footage, home movies, and obsolete instructional shorts. In 1979 and 1980, Rick Prelinger of the Prelinger Archives was a frequent contributor and occasional projectionist at the bands live performances in San Francisco. There was never a set length or definitive finished version of the original Unit Training Film. Just the current version. The film varied in length from about 10 to 45 minutes, depending on how long the Units set was on any particular night. Clips were constantly being added and others were deleted and discarded once their condition became too poor to project any longer. The film was constantly breaking, and the projectionists always kept a roll of Scotch Tape nearby for timely repairs. This 5 minute version, compiled by Scott Ryser, includes some clips of the band playing along with a brief interview by a very young Fred Willard during the period 1980 - 1982.