The light artwork “Lichthouders” is based on the gas holders, formerly located on the NRE site, in the shape of large, round storage spaces. Round, metal constructions of light elements placed on top of their historical ‘footprints’. These circulair elements display sound loops.

AUDIO LOOPS ARE JUST LIKE SEQUENCERS AND SYNTHESIZERS, ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF TODAYS ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE

The concept of using sound loops and making them visible is inspired by the sound experiments done by Philips in the 60’s by artists like Dick Raaijmakers. We created three “Lichthouders”, two with a diameter of 15 meters and one with a diameter of 21 meters, all have the same 3 meters height. Each object contains several hundreds of led pixels.
Every circle contains several audio loops and will be played in random order but within their sound composition. The audio loops are in sync with light animations so the movement and sound is directly visible. Using a circulair 6 speakers setup, the sounds are all moving around the public, creating a spacial hearing. The sound samples are composed by the producers duo Walvisnest.

Photo by Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie

Artist impression

Pitch

Jonas Vorwerk won the Foederer Talent Award for which he competed against 150 artists who send in their concept.  On Monday June 26th 2017, the 9 nominees presented their ideas to the jury consisting of Ronald Ramakers (director of GLOW), Tom Weerts (Head of Technical Production GLOW), Frank van der Vloed (CEO Philips Lighting Benelux), Petra Hulst (architectural lighting designer at Philips Lighting), Elcke van Gorkum, (winner FTA 2016), Johan Daams (CEO Crowe Horwath Foederer) and Rob Schoonen (Art Editor Eindhovens Dagblad).

Photos

Music and Sound design: Walvisnest
Audio production: Hoevenaars
Scaffolding: Gigant