I called a friend in Lagos Nigeria, and recorded the call as he walked through the busy bus stop of Ketu. For Blacksburg’s sound, I went to a bus stop on Main Street South and recorded the ambiance with my phone.
soundScape
Art Installation - Creative Code, Interaction design, Projection Mapping, Clay Modeling
Tools: TouchDesigner, Projector, Clay
What you hear can impact how you feel. I noticed a vast difference between walking through the vibrant, populated city of Lagos and Walking through Blacksburg. The sounds of both places are different and I wanted to show an audience how visually different these landscapes are using their sounds.
soundScape Lagos/Blacksburg is an installation art that uses generative art and projection to visualize and juxtapose the sounds of Ketu bus stop in Lagos Nigeria, my hometown, with the sound of the bus stop close to where I currently live, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
I used node-based coding in TouchDesigner to generate the art and immediately I saw the visual differences. I wanted a surface that brings these visual representations of different places together. Using the earth as the surface medium was the best, so I sculpted the landscape in clay and used a projector set up to display the generative art directly from TouchDesigner.
Year
2023
Tools
TouchDesigner, Projector, Clay
Skills
Creative Code, Interaction design, Projection Mapping, Clay Modeling
Project
Art Installation
