Arcana Luminis

As physical materials, water and glass play a key role in defining Vancouver’s unique urban soundscape. In the same way that light is refracted through prisms, so to is sound refracted through water and glass; so to is music, through the prisms of our minds as composers, performers, and as an urban community. Arcana Luminis will foster the creation of new musical instruments utilizing glass and water as a means of acoustic propagation and support new compositions written to explore their potential. Through a development process involving co-partners Redshift Music Society and This Is It, a creative design laboratory, this project will foster and prepare the materials for presentation in an innovative sound-installation performance to occur in 2015. The end goals of the project are both conceptual – to demonstrate how cognitive constructions are transformed by physical materials – and practical, as it will create legacy instruments to be explored and expanded upon by future researchers.

Faculty Supervisor:

Keith Hamel

Student:

Partner:

Redshift Music Society;This Is It

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

The University of British Columbia

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