colorillon

  • Adrien Lucca
This installation explores the connection between sound, light and movement. A carillon made up of 8 hollow aluminium tubes changes appearance and colour on its own, depending on the sound it produces.
© Caroline Lessire

Each tube of the carillon has been calibrated according to a resonance formula. It is then struck by percussion solenoids. This system produces a whole range of sounds. A real-time sound capture, acquisition and analysis system then takes over, identifying the events and frequencies of the sounds produced by the carillon.

The result is sound characteristics such as volume modulations, percussive or harmonic content, or frequency beat, all of which are used to drive hyperspectral lamps developed by Adrien Lucca. These devices use subtle modifications to the spectral content of the light to change the colour of objects without changing the perceived colour of the light beam.

These lamps are controlled by a nanocomputer that transforms the sound characteristics into light spectrum control signals, creating dynamic transitions in the colour gamut and thus changing the appearance of the instrument.

Created by

Adrien Lucca

Since 2009, Adrien Lucca develops a multidisciplinary body of work around color and light that questions our perception of the physical world.
In search of practical means of action to set up aesthetic experiences, he has set up a research and production laboratory where he conceives his works in an autonomous way at the intersection of art and science.
To the antipodes of a sad passion for the normalization and the technicization of our relations to the physical world, Lucca believes that one can highlight the strangeness of the link between the physical world and our perception of it by appropriating scientific and technological ressources.
His most recent work aims at redefining the very concept of “color”.

Adrien Lucca (born in 1983 in Paris) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

https://adrienlucca.net/

Credits

Conception: Adrien Lucca, Ohme
Light synthesiser and programmed painting: Adrien Lucca
Engineering and technical development: François Bronchart, Raoul Sommeillier, Loïc Vanhecke (Ohme Lab)
Mechanical structure:  Mathieu Zurstrassen
Co-production: Ohme and Studio Adrien Lucca