{"id":429,"date":"2012-08-08T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andy-coates.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2012-08-08T12:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:29:10","slug":"universe-of-sound-a-week-in-the-science-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andy-coates.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSE OF SOUND, a week in the Science Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This seems like agens ago now but it was only a couple of month back in May (2012) whe I was working with the good people at the Philharmonia working on the install of Universe Of Sound<\/a> at the Science Museum<\/a> London. Roll back to January this year and we were doing the filming for Universe of Sound at watford<\/a>. After much painstaking editing, stretching, tweaking and cutting of the footage it was time to install the infrastructure for the exhibition. To explain what Universe of sound is, heres an excerpt from the website:<\/p>\n

Conduct, play and step inside a virtual\u00a0Philharmonia Orchestra<\/a>, joining 132 musicians and\u00a0Esa-Pekka Salonen<\/a>, the Orchestra\u2019s Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, performing one of the most spectacular pieces of music ever written.\u00a0Universe of Sound<\/em>\u00a0is an extraordinary free interactive digital installation, allowing you to explore an orchestra from the inside out as they perform Holst\u2019sThe Planets<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Using giant visual displays, touch screens, unconventional projecting surfaces, movement-based interaction and planetarium-style projections, you can take part as musicians, conductors, arrangers and composers.\u00a0Universe of Sound<\/em>\u00a0has been created by\u00a0Esa-Pekka Salonen<\/a>\u00a0and the Philharmonia Orchestra.<\/p>\n

The installation also features a new companion piece to The Planets, by composer\u00a0Joby Talbot<\/a>, called\u00a0Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The week started busy, and then to the middle of the week it continued busy, and nearing the end of the week and right up to the opening, it remained BUSY. Our task was to install the technical aspect of the install wich included all of the Projectors, LED screens, network\/power infrastructure and construction of “The Dome” below in its flat pack state.<\/p>\n

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In addition Chris Plant<\/a> was also involved creating the interactive software patch for the Conductor pods, where your hands get tracked by a Kinect camera and you try and match the movements of the conductor. Its great fun and it was nice to finally meet Chris, pictured below, patching in one of the conductor pods.<\/p>\n

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As the week progressed we continued mounting projectors, fabricating, stands and mounts for\u00a0various\u00a0speakers and dome additions. there was allot of network cable to terminate and general stuff to be done, so we were joined by some guys from RNSS and XLvideo for a couple of days to keep us on track. As install and construction was taking place we had a team of people still editing video and Steve was working\u00a0relentlessly autoring and setting up the\u00a0synchronised\u00a0playback system.<\/p>\n

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I must say it\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0the easiest install partially as there\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0a huge timescale to do things and partially because we had to use the museums\u00a0preferred\u00a0suppliers for certain things, which on some occasions was quite frustrating. It was as always good to be working with friends which made the long days easier and we soldiered on getting things in and up intime for the opening night.<\/p>\n

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The install is currently up and running and\u00a0thoroughly\u00a0good way to spend a couple of hours for all ages. For a better ilustration of what the install is actually like take a look at the excerpt which was featured in Newsround a few weeks back here: UNIVERSE OF SOUND NEWSROUND<\/a><\/p>\n

The install will run until the 27th of august at the Science Museum london.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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