Reflections
3D sound installation, presented at Jaaga Creative Common Ground, Bangalore (2011)
This is a 3D-sound work which was created for and installed at Jaaga in it's final week before being deconstructed. In collaboration with french artist Clemence Barret, members of the Jaaga community were interviewed. Each of their reflections was then associated with a virtual 'sound sphere' and set free to roam a virtual model of the Jaaga structure.
The physical Jaaga structure was sporadically laid out with loudspeakers in key locations, and the virtual model was built to match this layout. As one of the sound spheres approaches a louspeaker, the voice it contains emerges from that speaker. As the sound sphere floats away, so the sound dissipates.
Because of this, much of the time the Jaaga community members are speaking noone is hearing them at all; it is only when they coincide with a loudspeaker that their voice is heard.
This piece is a counterpoint to the related work 'Gravity'. Where Gravity is a personal response, Reflections is a community response. Where Gravity is a defiant attempt to draw people together, Reflections allows them to float apart, and to choose their own paths. It is inspired by ideas of acceptance, of liberation and of chance.
- Read blog posts on the creation and dissemination of this work.
- Read blog posts on the Jaaga Residency program, during which this work was created.
- See the related work: Gravity.