a collaboration with digital artist Fabien Bouchard aka Parse/Error.
Geometry of Emotions is an immersive, interactive, and generative digital artwork, born from a collaboration between digital artist Parse/Error (Fabien Bouchard) and French electronic/generative musician Matthieu Pernaud. A creation specially imagined for REXPERIENCE, or RXP.KL, the largest immersive art space in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur).
Lasting 15 minutes, this experience is displayed in a massive immersive space and includes video projections on the floor and on three walls (20 video projectors), with spatialized sound diffusion (16 speakers). This entire creation is generative and interactive, capable of reacting in real time to the presence of spectators, thanks to a LIDAR sensor, in order to adapt its visual and sound content. Geometry of Emotions uses Unreal Engine 5 for the visual, and Ableton / Max For Live / XP4L for the spatialized sound. The immersive space is based on an nDisplay system driven by Unreal Engine and Touchdesigner.
This project’s been a real pleasure and a proper challenge involving programming custom Max For Live devices to get OSC data from Unreal Engine, using it to spatialize audio in the 3D space. We also developed Max For Live devices to send data to Unreal, to have a bidirectional communication between the interactive 3D graphics and the audio.
