photograph: Frank Clark, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, final, 2011
photograph: Boris Popović, MoCA Zagreb, T-HT Award
photographer: Damir Žižić, Contemporary Sound Showroom, Zagreb
photographer: Jasenko Rasol, Kontejner, ZPC, 2011
LIGHTERATURE READING
Can You Hear Lights Around Us?
P R E F A C E : L I G H T U N E . G
LIGHTERATURE READING (Chapters) is the first in the series of luminoacoustic projects. It is divided into chapters, each performance is unique and differs from the previous one in the amount of panels used, the variety of lighting sources used, duration and form (concert / installation), as well as the possible inclusion of the audience in the performance itself.
video: New Collections is a project of the Third Programme of Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT - HTV 3). This is a specific project of Croatian Radiotelevision, aiming to support artists and artistic production in creating new audiovisual works. In a span of 5 weeks, viewers of Croatian Television (HRT - HTV) had the opportunity to see a series of newly-produced video works and installations by known Croatian artists, made within the framework of Croatian Radiotelevision, which challenge the boundaries of the media, television and reality. The artistic project New Collections is authored by Tomislav Pulić, while the team of curators and advisors is composed of art historian and curator Branka Benčić, and director and media artist Vladislav Knežević. Vlatka Kolarović is the editor and host of the show.
LIGHTUNE.G, was founded in 2011 by Croatian multimedia artists Bojan Gagić and Miodrag Gladović, from a desire to present the results of their luminoacoustic research, which they started a year before. The name of the duo emerged from their first experiments, which they performed with the classical tungsten light sources, which produced sound of 50 Hz (~G1).
After the first series of performances / concerts / installations, called Lighterature Readings, in which they created music using various types of artificial lighting and nine solar panels, they later started researching the sound produced by a natural light source - the Sun. In 2013 they presented their ‘mobile luminoacoustic’ project - Route 666, and a year later they built their first luminoacoustic object - Luminophone.
Later on, they have collaborated with many other artists and festivals (Mirela Ivičević, Hugo Morales, Ana Horvat, Davorka Begović, Cantus Ensemble, Showroom of Contemporary Sound, Heart of Noise, TouchMe, Device Art, Sonica, AudioArt...).
They received several awards, including the 3rd prize at the Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, USA (2012), the 2nd prize for multimedia content of the Croatian EXPO Pavilion (2012), the Audience Award at the T-Natječaj HT@msu.hr for Croatian Contemporary Art (2014), and a special mention from the jury at the Biennale di Venezia (for the light and sound design of architect Ana Dana Beroš' installation, 2015).
LUMINOACOUSTIC is a performance technique based on the analogue conversion of light into sound. This conversion is done using the photovoltaic effect of the solar panel. The silicon cells of the panel transform the light source frequencies into a modular sound image. The technique was developed by Lightune.G.
The difference between the luminoacustics and other art projects based on the use of photovoltaic effect(*) is that in luminoacoustics we can actually hear the sound of the light itself. The basic work methodology is divided into working with artificial light sources (neon, halogen, tungsten, LED, video projection, laser, lighters, UV, bicycle lighting, strobe ...) and working with the natural source of light, sun(light). When using artificial light, the structure of the sound image/composition is created through combinations of diverse light sources, as well as by the changes of the intensity of the light itself, while in working with sunlight, the principle is reversed, ie, the shadows of varying densities and velocities create an audible spectrum of sound.
year: 2011
curator: Kontejner Curator Collective
medium: luminoacoustic live set / interactive sound installation
first installation: Neart Of Noise Festival
first live set: TouchMe Festival
first presentation: Festival Prvih, curated by Željko Zorica-Šiš, 2010
copyright: all rights reserved, Bojan Gagić, 2024.