Light Cloud is an interactive sound and light installation shaped around cognitive and emotional states such as dreaming, remembering, and thinking. More than 80 evolving soundscapes transform the space into a continuously changing audiovisual environment.
Our Role Sound Concept, Interaction Design, Sound Design, Music Composition & Production, Audio Supervision, Programming, Mix & Master, On-site Implementation // Client Merck // Creative Direction, Concept, Design, Lead agency TAMSCHICK MEDIA+SPACE // Technical Planning, Implementation, Construction, Hardware, Software, Programming iart ag // Architect HENN // Year 2018
Light Cloud is an interactive sound and light installation inspired by the cognitive and emotional states of an artificial being. The work stages processes such as sleeping, dreaming, remembering, feeling, and thinking through continuously shifting audiovisual compositions.
Each composition reflects a different state of consciousness and changes the relationship between visitors and the environment. Depending on the current mode, visitors become observers, participants, or active triggers within the installation. Throughout the day, the system reorganizes its compositions, allowing the space to behave differently over repeated visits.
More than 80 unique soundscapes form a continuously evolving sonic environment ranging from musical structures to experimental sound compositions. Visitor movement influences the audiovisual responses, creating changing relationships between sound, light, and spatial behavior. Behind mirrored surfaces, movement data continuously generates new correlations between audience activity and audiovisual reactions.
We created the sound concept and interactive sound environment for the installation, including music composition, sound design, interaction design, audio supervision, programming, mixing, mastering, and on-site implementation. The spatial audio system combined ceiling speakers, wall-mounted exciters, and a subwoofer beneath the floor to envelop visitors within a seamless multichannel sound field.
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