creative coding
stage design & installation
3D modeling & animation
UNITY – Interactive Installation
Service
Credits
Royal College of Art
Concept
UNITY – Rave Culture and Human Entrainment is an interactive installation, created between 2019 and 2020 as part of my final project for the Digital Direction programme at the Royal College of Art. UNITY is also the continuation (and physical exploration) of my study on music and its representation.
Statement of Intent
UNITY explores and questions the relationship between music and consciousness and how it reflects – and is reflected – upon our sensorimotor response to music. Through the particles, the idea of synchronisation and human entrainment are visualised as to represent the vibe, an invisible feature inherent of clubs and ancient rituals. By dancing with others and watching them synchronise to the rhythm, we synchronise ourselves, feeding a feedback loop of positive vibrations similar to a collective effervescence.
“I looked at the others around me and I could see in their eyes the very peace and warmth that I was feeling. Their gestures and the way they danced only amplified this ‘vibe’ and continued it through the night, and I wondered if we were all living in a dream…”
P.M. West (1996)
Installation Breakdown
The user stands behind one screen, where there is its own real-time particles recording. On the left and right screens there are displayed the two previous users.
Attached to the central frame a Kinect (motion tracking device) to record in real time.
Laban Algorithm
The Laban Effort Algorithm is an incredible tool to analyze and estiamate the average effort (intensity) of the dancers throughout the whole act. After we translated it into code and fed it to Unity, we were able to create a visual graph that represent the intensity of the movement of each user.
All users can also compare their effort with previous users.
