Light: Transform the room by using the light of the sun. The composition will consist of a mix of 1) radio signals which will be picked up from the neighbourhood (Arab music) 2) solar sounds as they have been recorded by NASA in recent years 3) a simple musical tune created for the site.
Motion sensors and pressure sensors will be used to start and modulate a sound composition. Sound: transform the room into a musical instrument which may be played by visitors. Their individual work may indirectly profit from this collaborative project in which education, research and production come together, but the main objective of the project is to offer them the opportunity to excercise the ins and outs of collaborative creative culture.Īfter the introduction of the subject, a number of proposals were formulated, most of them directly related to the wish of all participants to change the room (presently an unattended storage space) into a live organic environment – a zen space – by connecting the inside space with the outside environment in a number of significant ways. Students participating in this project have chosen to be part of a team. The focus of the research is to come up with a proposal to transform the glass corridor at the first floor of the Transmedia location into a sound-and-light-environment by using ideas and means of today. The Magenta Room project departed from studying the original sound-and-light-environments and Dream House as they were developed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in the period 1962 – 1990. Mapping the psychological consequences, such as synesthetic experiences, sense of presence, and behavioral effects, will be part of the research. The aim of the research is to study advanced examples of mediated architecture, parks and landscapes, and to design and develop new concepts and models for future integrations of virtual and physical reality. Together with Boris Debackere’s research project the Light Windows, these projects constitue the inauguration of the new Transmedia research project Mediated Environments. Six students decided to devote some of their time to participate in this project. On wednesday Novemthe Magenta Room research project started with a short introduction for first year students of the master-after-master art curriculum Transmedia. by a (re)composition of the concept based on the artistic needs and technologies of today. The research focuses on the opening of the concept and the studying of the different components of the assemblag – the sound, the light, the house, the environment, etc.
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The project is inspired by a series of works created by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, the Dream House, in th period 1962-1990.
The research project the Magenta Room aims at transforming one of the rooms of the Transmedia department in the annex of the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel into a sound-and-light-environment.