互动装置艺术作品“BLOOM”

装置艺术互动装置新媒体美陈

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罗切斯特彭菲尔德一间不起眼的针灸和整体医学诊所惊现最新而巧妙的互动装置艺术作品。此装置艺术作品是一个二十面体（或20面的几何结构）-由30个荧光灯管组成，这些荧光灯管由3D打印的五叉式接头钳工融合在一起。每个灯管包含150个led灯，总共4500个单独的灯被排列成条状，盘绕在灯管内的木榫上，用羊皮纸包裹。

装置艺术作品里面有一把椅子，一个毯子作为临时的靠枕，还有一副耳机。穿过一个三角形开口，然后你就可以在里面安顿下来。

Rochester’s newest and ingenious interactive art installation is tucked away in a nondescript room of an acupuncture and holistic medicine practice in Penfield.
In there sits an icosahedron — or 20-sided geometrical structure — consisting of 30 fluorescent tubes fused together by 3D-printed, five-pronged joint fitters. Imagine an oversized Dungeons and Dragons die that can comfortably house a person, and you’ve got the picture. Each tube contains 150 LEDs, for a total of 4,500 individual lights arranged in strips, coiled around wooden dowels inside the tubes, and diffused with parchment paper.
Inside the die is a single chair, with a blanket as a makeshift headrest, and a set of headphones. To get to it, you duck through an opening in one of the die’s triangular faces and settle in.
The room goes dark and silent; then “BLOOM” takes off.

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“BLOOM” 是音乐家和工程师汤姆·蒙塔利亚诺（Tom Montagliano）的创意，多年来，他的空间声音装置一直是Keybank Rochester Fringe音乐节的固定装置。

“ BLOOM”的多感官体验结合了环境音乐创作和动感的灯光设计，是他作为私人的，孤独的体验而创作的第一部视听装置。

蒙塔利亚诺（Tom Montagliano）说：“我试图跨越常规表演和艺术装置的界限。”

“BLOOM” is the brainchild of musician and engineer Tom Montagliano, whose spatial sound installations have been a fixture at Keybank Rochester Fringe Festival for several years.
The multisensory experience of “BLOOM,” which combines ambient music composition and dynamic light design, is the first of his audiovisual installations created as a private, solitary experience.
“I’m trying to straddle the line of a regular performance and an art installation,” Montagliano says.

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“ BLOOM”的开头是低沉的嗡嗡声，因为光线开始从单个管中散发出来，并逐渐散布到越来越多的周围结构中。 随着光线越来越大，合成器和弦逐渐出现。

闭上眼睛，你仍然可以看到流动的荧光投射在你的眼睑，就像通过负像滤镜看到幽灵般，灰白的条纹。当你再次睁开你的眼睛时，光呈现出一种粘性，因为它在不同的方向从一根管子流动到另一根管子。

稍后，你可以听到弹琴的声音，听起来像是柔和的竖琴或尤克里里，蓝光演变成淡蓝和蓝绿色的阴影，管内led的运动模仿阳光在树叶上闪烁的方式。有时，细小的鹅卵石点缀着你面前的空间，伴随着噼里啪啦的声音，让人想起秋天踩在脚下的枯叶，或者春天的冰融化的声音。

“BLOOM” begins with a deep, low hum as light starts to emanate from a single tube and spreads slowly to more and more of the surrounding structure. Synth-laden chords gradually emerge as the light swells brighter and brighter.
With eyes closed, you can still see the flowing fluorescent light projected against the back of your eyelids, as if looking through a negative image filter at ghost-like, white-gray streaks. Upon opening your eyes again, the light takes on a viscous quality as it moves fluidly from tube to tube in various directions.
Later, you can hear the plucking of what sounds like a muted harp or ukulele, as blue light evolves into cool shades of light teal and aquamarine, and the movement of the LEDs within the tubes emulates the way sunlight flickers on the leaves of a tree.

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“BLOOM”的编排不仅是光通过管子的运动，还包括你的眼睛对光的反应。你对所见所闻的感知成为表演本身至关重要的一部分。

从声音上来说，这种体验就像是听到了未来的传统风琴。低音域的低吼音符和高的，闪烁的音调听起来好像他们是通过传统的方式产生的，通过金属管道的空气，然后通过数字接口过滤。

你可能会认为，在针灸和整体医学办公室举办这样的展览会很奇怪，但罗切斯特正念医学公司的经营者亚伦·奥尔登博士(Aaron Olden)说，这个展览对他的执业很有帮助。

At other times, tiny pebbles of light spackle the space in front of you, accompanied by a crackling sound that evokes images of dry leaves underfoot in the fall, or the sound of ice thawing in spring.
The choreography of “BLOOM” is not only in the movement of light through the tubes, but also in the movement your eyes make in response to the light. Your perception of what you hear and see becomes a vital part of the performance itself.
Sonically, the experience is like hearing a futuristic cousin of the traditional organ. Low-range bellowing notes and high, shimmering tones sound as if they were produced conventionally, with air through metal pipes, then filtered through a digital interface.
You might think an acupuncture and holistic medicine office would be an odd place for such an exhibit, but Dr. Aaron Olden, who runs Mindful Medicine Rochester, said it worked for his practice.

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奥尔登认为，蒙塔格利亚诺的视听创作将有助于那些过去尝试冥想失败的人们。因为“BLOOM”是一次孤独的经历，会引起人们的反思，所以奥尔登把它看作是我们这个冠状病毒混乱时代的一种心理慰藉。

“现在很难找到让人高兴或兴奋的事情，”他说。“所以这个时机非常合适，因为它让人们再次感受到那种感觉。”

Olden felt Montagliano’s audiovisual creations would be conducive for people who had unsuccessfully tried meditation in the past. And because “BLOOM” is a solitary experience that invites introspection, Olden sees it as a psychological salve for our COVID-addled times.
“It’s hard these days to find something to be happy about or excited about,” he says. “So the timing of this worked out really good because it allows people to feel that again.”

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Montagliano has displayed his work at Fringe since 2016.
It began with “Immersive Soundscapes,” in which his ambient compositions were played through eight different speakers placed around the spacious Lyric Theatre. In 2017 and 2018, Montagliano took the “surround sound” experience one step farther, arranging the eight speakers in a circular configuration inside the portable “Immersive Igloo,” an inflatable, luminescent structure 40 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Arguably the work for which Montagliano is best known, the Igloo provided a serene environment in which participants could have what the artist dubbed a “3D Sound Experience.”
At last year’s Fringe Festival, Montagliano created “Ripple” with Rochester Dance Theatre, incorporating light design by Occurrent Arts. The resulting multimedia performance gave new meaning to the three-dimensional aspect of Montagliano’s art, as it engaged audience members with the simultaneous movement of sound, light, and physical performers around the space.
The Rochester native’s work with sound and light has always been a crafty amalgam of ethereal conceptual art and technical precision, and the communal aspect of the audience experience has always been crucial.
But 2020 is different. The Rochester Fringe Festival in September will be completely virtual, and the opportunity to experience art publicly in a group setting is highly impractical, if not impossible.
Montagliano says the goal with “BLOOM” was to construct a neutral environment in which to have a meaningful experience that combined the abstract, open-to-interpretation nature of an art installation with the finite time constraints of a concert experience.
Now a Hemlock resident, Montagliano is also a guitarist who had spent ample time performing in Rochester bands such as the prog-rock group Argus Eye and the mystical folk outfit Bogs Visionary Orchestra, as well as his own singer-songwriter project Maudlin Maladies.
Montagliano got tired of the noise and distractions of the typical concert experience, as well as the paradigm of performance. “It takes time for the artist to convince people to go where you want to take them,” he says of concert audiences.
“I don’t like being on stage,” he says. “I like to hit the spacebar and just leave.”
Montagliano became drawn to spatial sound, which he began to explore with the synth-driven band known as The Quadratic Trio, before eventually focusing on the creation of more slow-moving and percussion-less ambient sounds.
The 39-year-old musician also found audiences that were more open and receptive to his compositions at less conventional venues such as yoga studios, art galleries, festivals, classrooms, and bookstores. In realizing how vital it was to present his music in an ideal environment, he started using lights in his presentations, and in 2016 bought the large, inflatable dome for what would become “Immersive Igloo.”
In 2018, while working on an “Orb” art installation at the cultural happening known as Burning Man, Montagliano met software engineer Tracy Scott, who was working on a nearby project called the “Rainbow Bridge.” The two stayed in touch, and Montagliano enlisted Scott to construct the light design for “BLOOM.”
Scott was eager to collaborate with a composer on a project that combined sounds and visuals. “It was a new style for me where I focused on providing visual components that were designed to be choreographed as Tom needed,” he said in a recent email exchange. “It is an ideal collaboration where we rely on each other's strengths.”
Using the digital lighting workstation LX Studio, Scott and Montagliano created their own software to design the visual patterns displayed in the installation. “I built the 3D representation of the icosahedron, including the topological modeling that enables lights to travel along the surface across joints, etc. There is also representation of the faces, so that visuals can be written to light up random triangle faces, for example.”
But how did an acupuncturist’s office become the appropriate setting for a seemingly unrelated sound-and-light installation?
Olden had seen a performance of Montagliano’s “Ripple,” and as someone naturally interested in sound and music, he began to think about how Montagliano’s art and his work as a medical professional each assisted people in making the connection between mind and body. The doctor refers to this interrelationship as “bio-psycho-social.”
It wasn’t until he read an NPR article about the efficacy of green light in treating people with chronic pain such as migraines that he sought out Montagliano in earnest in January.
A dialogue about how to develop an audiovisual experience ensued. Montagliano calls Olden a “guiding force” who has provided meaningful feedback and lent trust in the artist.
While Olden has made “BLOOM” available as an experience for his patients, he is quick to clarify that it isn’t intended as a medical treatment. He has found that it may be too stimulating an experience for some patients to have directly after acupuncture treatments, and the installation’s brief strobing light effects are ill-advised for those with a history of epilepsy.
He does, however, see it as a way to feel more connected to one’s self, during a challenging time of disconnect throughout society.
“We’re still trying to figure out the audience for this, and I really think it’s for the community at-large,” Olden says.

奥尔登还制定了额外的安全规程，以确保来体验者的安全。在罗彻斯特留心医学公司内，必须戴口罩，每次使用前和使用后都要对耳机进行消毒。每个参与者的耳机上都包裹着薄薄的保护性耳罩。

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“BLOOM”是一个正在进行的项目，目前正在进行第一次迭代。蒙塔利亚诺目前正在集思广益，修改未来版本。

 Olden has also instituted additional safety protocols to ensure that people who come to experience “BLOOM” are doing so safely. Masks are required inside Mindful Medicine Rochester, and the headphones are sanitized before and after each use. Thin, protective ear muffs are also wrapped around the headphones for each individual participant.
“BLOOM” is an ongoing project, in its first iteration. Montagliano is currently brainstorming modifications to the experience for future versions of the installation.