The Lightbulbs

The Lightbulbs

• installation
• light
• mapping
• audio-visual

The Lightbulbs invite you to a visual music experience with lights and flames guiding you through a journey of emotions.

Together with Alan Chismechian, a VJ-set was created and performed in the course of the one-week KISD project “Motion Experience Lab: Visual Music — Loops in Space”. The loops for the set were created by recording fire and led poi motion and manipulating it digitally.

The project was supported by Michael Titze, motion designer, visual artist und free member of Berlin-based design and motion graphics studio Pfadfinderei.

Film Soundtrack:

• Can't Wait Too Long by The Beach Boys
• Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths
• Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen
• Goodnight by The Beatles
• If I Needed Someone by The Beatles
• Love and Mercy by Brian Wilson

All music property belongs to the Artists mentioned above and their respective labels. No copyright infringement is intended.

KISD - 2017

Leonie with fire poi

Joy is a feeling we are all looking after, and visual music enables to affect the mind though the synergy of musical and visual stimuli in an atmospheric ambiance. A set of different loops was first created to perform and play with them and make a live visual composition following and visualising a narrative through the feelings and stages of the music. Fire and light and their motions are elements of this performance, visualising the joy conveyed through the used music, mainly from the 60's.

The inspiration came from the fire and flow arts: Poi-spinning is a performance art in which the artist is swinging tethered weights through a variety of rhythmical and geometric patterns. The end of the poi can also be LEDs or burning Kevlar, which creates mesmerizing visuals in the darkness. The idea of this VJ-set was to record these visualisations, manipulate them and allow to play with them.

As many VJ-sets are specialized to fit electronic music, we decided to take the challenge and create a VJ-performance for more acoustical and less strictly rhythmed music from the 60’s.

The set was performed live in front of a public at the end of the project week. For better documentation quality, the set was played and recorded in a specially dark place.