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Lightscape-Chromatic Nocturne
“Chromatic Nocturne” is a generative audio-visual installation in Lightscape project, bring together elements of light and sound from different routes within the city, each masking the other, and serving as the basis for visual and aural interaction, focuses on the relationship between sensory experience and external structures within the city.
Emily Thompson has written that within social landscapes, whether a soundscape or a landscape, the influence of the city far exceeds that of nature. Moreover, these landscapes are in a constant state of flux. The everyday behaviours in the public spaces shaped our impression of the city. Different streets and routes evoke the variety of urban life and constructed the collective memory.
Modern societies and cities maintain their order through quantization and standardization. The lighting system allows people to take advantage of the nighttime to expand the leisure and economic activities, no longer confined to sunrise and sunset, seasonal weather and other natural rhythms, also has nothing to do with personal feelings and differences in lifestyle. For this reason, people finally be able to follow and schedule all the tasks in their "daily life” as the routine. There are clear expectations for when to do what.
Noise is usually chaotic and disorderly, while organized noise- the music, is a mirror, reflecting the reflection of society, and has the power to predict the future. How we interpret, organize, reproduce, and use sound are artifacts of ritualized processes. In turn, these aural structures interact with the city in light rich spaces, where people and activities concentrate and take form through sound. People instinctively avoid the dark, using the presence or absence of light to indirectly controlling and disciplining urban sound, thereby creating light’s sensory mirror.
Emily Thompson has written that within social landscapes, whether a soundscape or a landscape, the influence of the city far exceeds that of nature. Moreover, these landscapes are in a constant state of flux. The everyday behaviours in the public spaces shaped our impression of the city. Different streets and routes evoke the variety of urban life and constructed the collective memory.
Modern societies and cities maintain their order through quantization and standardization. The lighting system allows people to take advantage of the nighttime to expand the leisure and economic activities, no longer confined to sunrise and sunset, seasonal weather and other natural rhythms, also has nothing to do with personal feelings and differences in lifestyle. For this reason, people finally be able to follow and schedule all the tasks in their "daily life” as the routine. There are clear expectations for when to do what.
Noise is usually chaotic and disorderly, while organized noise- the music, is a mirror, reflecting the reflection of society, and has the power to predict the future. How we interpret, organize, reproduce, and use sound are artifacts of ritualized processes. In turn, these aural structures interact with the city in light rich spaces, where people and activities concentrate and take form through sound. People instinctively avoid the dark, using the presence or absence of light to indirectly controlling and disciplining urban sound, thereby creating light’s sensory mirror.
