Posłuszny Piksel
An interactive audiovisual installation where body movement conducts pixels and sound
In 2012 I took part in Posłuszny Piksel (“Obedient Pixel”), an interactive audio-visual installation shown at Opera i Filharmonia Podlaska in Białystok.
The idea was simple: movement becomes composition. Visitors step into a field of pixels and, with a gesture, can shape it. The visuals respond immediately, and so does the sound. For a moment you stop being a spectator and become a performer, a small-scale conductor of image and music. That direct cause-and-effect was important to us: it makes contemporary sound less intimidating and turns it into play.
The installation was a collaboration between three people:
- Maciej Niewiński (concept / engineering)
- Marek Włodzimirov (visual direction)
- me (music and sound)
It was produced as part of a Polish-Belarusian cultural collaboration program in 2012 (co-financed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and presented at the Opera alongside the exhibition Instrumenty z duszą.
Some of the material I wrote for Posłuszny Piksel later found its way into my album Kasha-Malasha (2013).