YUVA travelled over to Gdansk (Poland) at the end of November 2009 to participate in the Narracje festival (26 Nov- 6 Dec 2009). Working with local Polish artist Dorota Walentynowicz, YUVa created a real-time light sculpture which was sound reactive to its surrounding environment.

Dorota explains a little more about the building, “The effect of projected light has caused the whole material of the façade to manifested itself in new ways. The façade consists of various surfaces, each of these reflecting the light differently. Its made of various materials, starting from metal and concrete, ending with glass windows behind which people who work here have hung curtains of various transparency. This building is a natural mosaic, which we use and underline in the work, trying to extract it from the dark”.

At 72m x 56m the CTO building was an ambitiously big surface to project onto. Two 30,000 lumen HD beamers were stacked, one on top of each other and positioned on a 3 story scaffold tower which was built on the top floor of a parking garage in order to achieve the image.

We designed custom Quartz Composer patches to run inside of VDMX which handled the sound analysis in real-time. Performing over 3 nights in November/December, we were worried about weather conditions but luck was on our side and it remained dry and snow free, only raining during the last half hour of the final performance.