PANORAMA FESTIVAL PREVIEW #1: The Lab And Artist Installations

The first Panorama Festival is happening soon, July 22 -24, and I am too excited. Honestly, the event promises to be better than any other music festival, which, I know, “What festival does not promise that?”. Well, Panorama is different because it has a technological edge.

Panorama is set to be a sensory overload/ upload by recruiting some of the top engineers/scientists for this 3 day event. The young men and women have been using their brainwaves to find the coolest methods for festivalgoers to experience their music. At Panorama, music is more than just heard it majestically seen and even touched. 

Here Are Some Of The AMAZING, Transformative Experiences!

Cotton Candy Theremin created by Emilie Baltz & Philip Sierzega, Creative Coding by Charlie Whitney and Audio by Antfood.

DESCRIPTION: The Cotton Candy Theremin is an interactive performance piece that remixes the interface of making cotton candy by transforming it into a multi-sensory orchestration. By spinning a cotton candy cone over wisps of candy floss, festivalgoers trigger sounds and visuals that transform a Cotton Candy Machine into an instrument for play.

Visceral Recess created by Future Wife

DESCRIPTION: A highly-responsive playground for festivalgoers, this inflatable structure encourages bouncing, hugging, rolling, and squeezing to create a unique auditory and visual environment that encourages its inhabitants to become more familiar with their intrinsic selves.

Hyper Thread created by Dave & Gabe

DESCRIPTION: Hyper Thread is a large-scale interactive sonic experience that invites the audience to explore, manipulate, and create sounds in real time through tactile engagement. Via a series of silk cocoons inside of a larger undulating silk envelope, tension and movement of the audience are translated into various components of the 3D soundscape and immersive lighting environment.

Infinite Wall created by Gabriel Pulecio AKA Lustix

 DESCRIPTION: Infinite Wall is an interactive installation consisting of mirrors, lights, and sounds that responds to an individual’s presence. Equipped with a motion sensor, the sculpture can capture the position of one or more festivalgoers and trigger a ripple in time resulting in an ever changing visual and auditory environment.

 Giant Gestures created by Mountain Gods

DESCRIPTION: The small finger gestures that we use to operate our mobile devices suddenly becomes supersized body language movements through the Giant Gestures installation. Here, festivalgoers will be given the opportunity to manipulate an oversized touch sensitive screen through the use of giant props. Tapping, swiping, and playing mini games takes on a new personality as simple micro gestures are reinterpreted for the human body.

The Art of Pinball created by Red Paper Heart 

 DESCRIPTION: The Art of Pinball reimagines the experience of a vintage pinball machine, into a tool of digital art performance.  The delightful clicks, hums, and whirs of a mechanical machine are all grounded in real tactile sensation.  The installation imagines the world around these tactile responses and explores what it means to turn pinball into an instrument of performance.  As festivalgoers play the game, visuals appear to emanate from the machine itself and rise above into dynamic compositions.  A player’s actions become larger than life, turning a mere game into something to behold. 

 Reflection Study created by Zachary Lieberman

 DESCRIPTION: Reflection Study is based on a series of software explorations of how light reflects and refracts and the various patterns like caustics which emerge. A special light table will be created to allow the festivalgoers to interact, explore, and create with light and shadow in a playful and exploratory way.

Okay! Breathe! Everybody Just Breathe! With all the cool technological nerdiness going on, I feel like Silicon Valley has finally met Music. For more information on this festival, and a visual preview check the video and Click Here.