LUMIA BRYTE

December, 2K 7

An interesting fact about Lumia is that just about every Lumia artist understands that Lumia is an expression of music, and all of us have our favorite music scores that we illustrate through the morphs and movements of Lumia's screen presence. Not only is its shape important in relation to the music, but so is its relationship of color to music.

To extend El Grande’s capabilities in that area, I collaborated with an audio engineer, Simran Gleason, (http://www.art.net/~simran/Sound Sculpture/HauntedGarden/index.html), who created for me a software package, which I called Lumia Bryte, which samples El Grande’s music and translates it via a color-sound matrix that acts to drive the LED light engine that presents the Lumia images.

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