The project 'Intermodulator' involves a series of interactive audio-visual devices that produce diverse patterns of fan moire image through participants’ collective and improvisational sound engagement. The system receives and analyzes the frequency and volume of different live sounds, and map them to the speed of the fans and the brightness of the backlight.

** Publication: Kang, Laewoo. "Intermodulator: Interactive Audio-Visual System for Collaborative Improvisation.", Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference, Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018

doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3177760 / download: [pdf]

Play examples:

4th - Eurorack Edition, 2021

3rd - Handy Intermodulator (covering Seeing it by Powerdove), 2019

2nd - CHI 2018 Edition (360° projection)

Original Version, 2017

 

More examples:

Captured by Jen Liu (Cornell)

Captured by Gilly Leshed (Cornell)