Skykomish Bridge Project

We had a great opportunity to do an interactive lighting project on the Skykomish bridge, to help light it up for the holidays.   Skykomish is a small mountain town 16 miles West of Stevens Pass on Highway 2. As people drive over the bridge, their cars are detected with a sonic range finder and the lights chase along with them. The goal is to both excite people to drive over the bridge, and to notify the town that someone is driving in. For the lights, we used outdoor LED lights with color controllers.  We used a sonic range finder…

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Video of Zymphonic Womhole at Burning Man 2014

Here is the Youtube video of our Burning Man 2014 installation, the Zymphonic Wormhole!  A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space, creating shortcuts for long journeys across the universe. As you will see in this video, with the Zymphonic Wormhole, we used a zipline passing through a shell of ropes woven to form catenary curves — with interactive sound and lighting — to create the experience of passing into the future. We thank Burning Man for the grant that made this installation possible!  

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