POP Post Origami Punk

Designed as a monumental performance in the Ars Electronica Center’s Deep Space 8K, as part of the 2024 Festival, we devised two-part performance to explore the visual and auditory space of folding. I took charge of the visualization along with Matthew Gardiner, and he and Anna Weiss crafted the audio experience.

The delicate reactive foldings and unfoldings of the monumental spiral were simulated in real-time, reacting and embracing the origami musical instruments being played below. This simulation, based on a partial rewrite of Amanda Ghaessi’s “Origami Simulator”, was custom-built to be integrated as a real-time compagnion to the musical processing on display. Combined with a Unity-based 3D scene, it powered a room-sized performance in front of a large audience.

Technology

Oribotic Instrument & Sonification

• Capacitive sensing plates & controller
• Pure Data patch

Visualization

• Unity
• Rewrite of the gpu-based “Origami Simulator”