oscillations by miguel chevalier transforms music into colorful moving graphics

digital artist miguel chevalier shares his latest installation, ‘oscillations 2020’, which has been unveiled in pittsburgh’s wood street galleries. on view until april 5, 2020, the work presents a new ‘generative virtual-reality’ that has been created to react to music composed by michel redolfi. as the images respond to the music, the result is a moving landscape of colorful graphics that absorb the viewer. 

oscillations 2020, miguel chevalier

all images courtesy of miguel chevalier (video by claude mossessian)

oscillations 2020 has been developed by chevalier with the use of generative software, which creates a waveform in real time according to the frequencies and amplitudes of the music by redolfi. these spectrums of the different sounds of music produce imaginary landscapes. these landscapes, which pass before the viewer’s eyes, present infinite variations: solid or wireframe, steep or flat, in black and white or in a spectrum of color. 

project info:

installation name: oscillations 2020

design: miguel chevalier

music: michel redolfi

location: wood street galleries, pittsburgh (USA)

curator: murray horne

dates: january 25 – april 5, 2020

software: cyrille henry / antoine villeret

technical production: voxels productions

film by: claude mossessian

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edited by: lynne myers | designboom