YUNA NEON CITY LIGHTS, Stage Design

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STAGE DESIGN ISTANA BUDAYA

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STAGE Design ISTANA BUDAYA

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DESIGN CONCEPT

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Design for a stage installation for Motiofixo to project their images onto the screen for Yuna’s performance at Istana Budaya.

Proposed screen made out of a structured frame of carefully aligned fishing wire on a grid lattice.

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Sights and sounds are almost inseparable. The two, although different in properties contributes to the wholeness or the totality of our experiences. To watch something without hearing sound leaves a huge gap in our senses, something’s incomplete, something’s missing. And vice versa often when we hear sound, a good piece of music for example, our minds eye instantaneously wanders and

creates images. We imagine ourselves at a concert, or maybe in an orchestra, maybe even going as far as drifting to far away world’s. So it should only be fitting that the experience of hearing music, such as in a concert, should be coupled with visual projections.

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Yuna on the other hand, creates wonderful music. Music which crosses many genres from hip hop, to jazz to rock. That with her amazing voice and equally backed up by the National Symphony Orchestra, creates a multitude of sonic experiences that would tantalize and stimulate our listening. To heighten the senses even further a stimulating visualisation is needed to complete the audience’s experience.

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This is where projections, the interplay of light, and music creates a powerful package. Projection Mapping is an exciting new projection technique that can turn almost any surface into a dynamic video display. Specialized software is used to warp and mask the projected image to make it fit perfectly on irregularly shaped screens.

When done right, the end result is a dynamic projection installation that transcends ordinary video projection. Adding depth and another visual dimension into how we see videos.

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Projection mapping requires a medium so that visualisations may appear on that medium. The medium may be of equal density or slightly porous, but just enough dense for a surface to be created for images to appear.

Projection mapping and visualisation by the visual scientist at Motiofixo. The controls of the stage visualizations.

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One of the mediums used to create a surface for projections is water. Specifically in the form of a water screen. When water is sprayed and in the form of particulate droplets, a dense enough surface can be created to which an image can be projected onto. Unlike a flat surface, water is also transparent, whereby projections can have a perception of depth. Creating an almost holographic image. When designing the backdrop of the main stage for Yuna’s performance, one of the main ideas was to create a visual depth, something that immerses the audience visually complementing the music.

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Seeing that the location of the installation was Istana Budaya, an indoor concert hall, a different medium was needed to bring about the same effects but without using water, as the cost would be tremendous not to mention the technical difficulties involved. It was found out later that fishing wire could replace water as the main medium. Fishing wire is semi transparent, letting light through. So if layers of fishing wire is hung and is dense enough together, a surface similar to that of a water screen can be created. Economical and effective at the same time. Coupled with solid projection blocks on equal side of the stage with incandescent bulbs interweaving between the band and the orchestra, the mood and ambient lighting is adjusted to suit the mood and tempo of the musical piece currently performing.

Each musical piece is also coordinated in terms of the colour scheme, lighting levels, and projection image to ensure the best experience of the performance is reached.

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Fishin wire lattice

Bringing down the backdrop after the show

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Motiofixo visual scientists hard at work

Incandescent bulbs dimmer controlled for adjusting the ambient light

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The different phases and moods throughout the performance.

STUDIES: FUTURE SELF

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“Future Self’ studies human movement; what it can reveal about identity and the relationship we have with our own image. The installation captures movement in light creating a three dimensional, ‘living’ sculpture from the composite gestures of those who surround it.

Photos by Random International

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In order to create a heightened level of experience, an exploration into new ways of interpreting media must be continuously done. By only exploring into the unknown may new discoveries into new material and its potential is possible.

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