Toshio Iwai is an installation artist who focuses on creating interactive installations, mainly relating to sound and visual. One of his best known installations is the 'Piano - As Image Media' project. This project used a trackball to create visual bars of light that was in sync with sound. This was the primary inspiration of my project, as the theory of Iwai's work is breaking the boundary between the physical world and the virtual world through data visualisation. My project uses this same theory by using the physical world, the synthesizer, to control the virtual world, the visualiser. I also used the same idea of the horizontal streaks of light that represent the keys being pressed from Iwai's installation; in my project I have horizontal beams that represent the individual keys of the synthesizer.
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| Piano - As Image Media Installation. |
Another work by Iwai that uses a similar theory, of breaking the boundary between the physical world and the virtual world, is his Composition on the Table installation. This installation uses projected images on a table that can be controlled with your hands to create music and sounds. In some ways it actually relates more to my project as it has different elements to control sound, such as dials and switches. Sounds are produced in relation to the way the projected images are moved. Essentially my project is a mirror image of this being that his project uses controlling the virtual images to create sounds, my project uses sound to control virtual images.
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| Composition on the Table installation. |
References
Young, D. (2010) TOSHIO IWAI. [Online] Available from: http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2010/02/05/toshio-iwai/ [accessed 13 November 2014]
technOasis. (2000) Toshio Iwai. [Online] Available from: http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/gallery/S99/big/artists/Toshio_Iwai.html [accessed 19 March 2015]
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