Audio experts Orbital Sound worked with the Breathing Trees team, providing the installation of two rings of speakers (high and low) displayed in the Potters Field.
In addition to providing the audio, the 3D Audioscape software also supplied MIDI cues to the Pharos lighting console, changing the colours of the lights, making the trees appear to visually breathe. The digital outputs of the computer were fed into a Yamaha LS9 console that provided additional level control. Each tree was rigged with a d&b E3 cabinet located high up in the branches, and an E9 located just above head height.
Laurent Louyer explains:
"I wanted to make the impressive Plane trees that frame the entrance to Potters Fields come to life and breathe with light and sound. And by doing so raise socio-political questions around issues of pollution and climate change, by provoking feelings and emotions strong enough to make us think about how we are dependent on what trees give us, oxygen."
Audio experts Orbital Sound worked with the Breathing Trees team, providing the installation of two rings of speakers (high and low) displayed in the Potters Field.
In addition to providing the audio, the 3D Audioscape software also supplied MIDI cues to the Pharos lighting console, changing the colours of the lights, making the trees appear to visually breathe. The digital outputs of the computer were fed into a Yamaha LS9 console that provided additional level control. Each tree was rigged with a d&b E3 cabinet located high up in the branches, and an E9 located just above head height.
Laurent Louyer explains:
"I wanted to make the impressive Plane trees that frame the entrance to Potters Fields come to life and breathe with light and sound. And by doing so raise socio-political questions around issues of pollution and climate change, by provoking feelings and emotions strong enough to make us think about how we are dependent on what trees give us, oxygen."