ARPA DI LUCE – Gianpietro Grossi, Francesco Murano, Pietro Pirelli

GIANPIETRO GROSSI, FRANCESCO MURANO, PIETRO PIRELLI – Arpa di Luce, 2010
Interactive installation of light and sound, made of 11 laser light ”strings”, 10 mt length.

Imagine to graze with the fingers a bundle of light’s strings, stretched through a huge architectural space. It comes out the sound of a harp, the architecture turns into a big cord device whose music is the one most liked by the gods, since it expresses the Harmony of the Heaven Spheres (Ovidium, Methamorphosis, book 11). Following this sound, like Pitagora, we turn our gaze upwards thus discovering that our musical action creates also a wonderful series of light’s events.
If tapped by swinging objects, the laser harp is sensitive to the visitor’s movements and to hear and see are carried out by the very same gesture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video courtesy of Frankfurter Allgemeine