{"id":726,"date":"2008-08-05T13:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/?p=726"},"modified":"2014-04-15T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T20:08:41","slug":"atom-by-whitevoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/atom-by-whitevoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Atom by WHITEvoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/08\/atom01s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" title=\"atom01s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/08\/atom01s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/08\/atom02s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-727\" title=\"atom02s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/08\/atom02s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n<p>The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8&#215;8 spatial matrix.  The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBXPavI3Aec&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YBXPavI3Aec&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>\r\n\r\n<p>Balloon motion control: Christopher Bauder<br \/>\r\nMusic, sound design &amp; LED patterns: Robert Henke<br \/>\r\nBalloons software and hardware engineered by C.Bauder, Till Beckmann and Holger Pecht (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitevoid.com\/\">whitevoid.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule. Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}