This is a freeway art project for the council of Wyndham based on the concept of rhythm. The concept is inspired by the rhythmic nature of driving and motion where the regular (or irregular) pulsing of landmarks such as light poles and trees can have distinct musical-visual effects on the driver. The proposal sought to express this essence of movement and use it to symbolise the transition the driver makes on the site from rural to urban with a rhythm increasing in intensity. The idea of the musical-visual experience was informed by music videos, primarily The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar. Grasshopper was used to create a parametric definition which allowed fins to be lined along a surface and attracted to points on the road in clusters to create visual pulses. These provided the metronomic foundation on top of which holes were mapped onto the supporting surface to create
pulses of light which
were composed to give the sensation of speeding up or increasing intensity. This was exaggerated by mapping of a sinusoidal wave outline (a reference to the sound-based nature of the project) on the form to create a swaying effect that also increased in intensity.
RHYTHM
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