Swarm
Since 1st February 2012, a metal frontage over the Observatory and Planetarium Brno entrance will become an nontraditional exhibition place for a light installation called the Swarm created by the multimedia artist and electronic musician Jiří Suchánek from Brno. A matrix from 187 lights fitted beneath a perforated steel plate represents a fragmented music space-time which elementarily formulates – by light spots – actions in the sounding authorial music. The created software works with a digital score on the basis of which it generates light structures. The basic premises of the algorythm are: 1) each light spot means a tone 2) dark means nothing 3) each step means time 4) each light intensity means strenght. The main theme of the artist’s work is his fascination by a simultaneity – running at the same time, mostly also by an invisible stream of datas, ideas, feelings, waves, particles… and so by a shift – offset in such swarming streams.
- Jiří Suchánek - METEOR SHOWER Brno Observatory and Planetarium00:00:03.346
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- In my installation Meteor Shower00:00:19.031
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- placed under the metal facade of the planetarium,00:00:22.531
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- I try to represent music through light.00:00:28.266
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- I wrote an algorithm00:00:33.082
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- that analyzes MIDI music I created.00:00:36.582
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- Its tones are represented by the lights00:00:41.451
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- that shine through the grid on the facade.00:00:46.451
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- I gave much thought to the meaning00:00:52.454
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- of the rectangular facade00:00:56.454
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- and I decided to consider the vertical plane as time00:01:00.136
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- and the horizontal plane as the pitch of the tone.00:01:05.636
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- The lights move from left to right00:01:10.636
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- and the height of each LED corresponds to the pitch.00:01:14.636
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- That's the main piece played every half hour.00:01:20.095
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- To this I also added some shorter sounds00:01:24.987
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- accompanied by lights on a less strict basis.00:01:31.218
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- They are loose animations00:01:37.035
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- based on sounds and emotions, no algorithm.00:01:40.647
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- The installation runs non-stop.00:01:50.507
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- The main piece is played00:01:55.282
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- every quarter past and quarter to.00:01:58.782
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- The shorter sounds are played every minute.00:02:03.520
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- It's best at night. In the day, you can't see much.00:02:09.397
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- The lights in the building have to be turned off.00:02:15.441