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SiloScope

Quai Jules Guesde, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, France

2014

LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Els Vermang

20m high steel structure

steel profiles, aluminium rails, Lexan diffusers, electronics, LED's

credits

Commission: Ville de Vitry sur Seine / Sadev 94
steel structure: Framatec
engineering: Ingé.St.Ar, Jean-Christophe Muscetti

history

2011 - LAb[au] winner of the competition for the public artwork
2014 - realisation and installation

abstract

the urban sculpture is a sound reactive light sculpture based on a hyperboloid structure, located at the Seine riverbanks in Vitry-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. The 20 m high hyperboloid is constituted of 20 straight lines where 10 have a clockwise and 10 a counter clockwise orientation resulting in a double hyperboloid structure. The clockwise straight lines are lit up by RGB LEDs running along the structure. Due to the use and triangulation of sound sensors, the direction and speed of sound emitted from the urban context is determined and analysed. This sound analysis is used to create light patterns.

text

Silo: sound in light out

Scope: In a computer programming language, a scope is a context in which values and expressions are associated. Different languages have different types of scope. The type of scope determines which entities it can contain and how it affects them, and defines the semantics of the system. Usually, a scope is used to define the extent of information, i.e. the visibility or accessibility of variables from different parts of the program.

Scope: to ‘see’, referring to an optical instrument such as a periscope, microscope or telescope.

Scope: from the Greek Skopos, reason or objective

Scope: the opportunity or chance to make, use or develop

A sculpture to see sound and light through space and time