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Lumino Kinetic Line

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A luminous Kinetic sculpture that functions as a participative sound installation. Visitors can interact with the sculpture through a tactile interface. The luminous line is suspended from the ceiling, each breakpoint of this line is attached to a motor. The interface consists of 6 pads, each pad controls the position of one of the motors.

The pads are made of a stretchable conductive fabric, resulting in a unique tactile experience. By sliding a finger over the fabric, one applies pressure on the pad´s surface thus changing the fabric´s conductivity. By analyzing the changes in conductivity we can read the finger´s movement, and translate this data into a controller that moves the motor up or down.

The division of the interface into 6 individual pads allows more people to interact with the sculpture and still experience a direct feedback of their influence on the sculpture.The positions of the motors not only move the sculpture, they also shape a sound. Over time the installation cycles through several sound modules, in each module these 6 parameters will affect different elements of the sound.

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