THE INSOMNIA SKETCHBOOK

Taiwanese artist collective LuxuryLogico and Italian electronic musician Andrea Cera constructed a sketchbook of short stories taking place in darkness, revolving around sound fields or sounds of consciousness, clumsiness, pureness, dances, conflicts, and destruction. Led by a light spot, viewers seem to be half awake and eulogizing mirages amidst dreams and realities. The Insomnia Sketchbook is the first international co-production work of C-LAB (Taiwan) and IRCAM (France). With the IRCAM’s “Spat”software, movements of light are mimicked by sound, creating a “cloud-like” surrounding soundscape. LuxuryLogico specializes in hybridizing multiple media such as light, sound, image, sculpture, and mechanical installation; they developed a mobile light device combining real-time computing and sound performance design while channeling kinematic parameters of the light source to generate sound. Andrea Cera explores the boundaries among musical composition, scientific research, and industrial design. He is known for working with moving lights; human body is modeled as a set of light points for automatically analyzing and sonifying the characteristics of expressive movements.