The ocular organ
PROJECT
ELECTRIC FOREST, 2024
The Ocular Organ
Electric Forest's Most Intimate Stage
The Ocular Organ is an immersive musical installation featuring a light reactive keyboard and smoke billowing organ pipes. Since 2016 it has served as a place for the audience to become the performers, to connect to our innate love of music and to encourage each other to share our talents. It has featured intimate performances from Big Gigantic, LP Giobbi, Porter Robinson, Said The Sky, Jason Leech, and Umphrey's McGee.
SERVICES
Conceptual Design
Modeling
Drafting
Fabrication
Paint and Finishing
Lighting Integration
SERVICES
Conceptual Design
Drafting
Modeling
Fabrication
Paint and Finishing
Lighting Integration
Process Details
The Ocular Organ is an immersive musical installation designed to react to the players’ action through lighting and audio. We use a state of the art system that translates MIDI signals from a digital piano and feeds them through a GrandMA to trigger the lighting. 24V addressable LED products span the whole piece, the higher voltage simplifies power distribution and reduces potential failure points. An Enttec Pixelator Mini and three PLinks ingest ArtNet or sACN and send SPI to the LEDs, this system allows for any lighting programmer to plug in and control the Organ with relative ease.
A supplementary audio and lighting rig is installed in the trees surrounding the Ocular Organ to bolster the atmosphere of the installation. The installation attracts hundreds of people at a time at Electric Forest. Some of the tech used to bring the Ocular Organ to life includes: Enttec Pixelator Mini, PLinks, GrandMA2, Ableton, and L’Acoustics.
THANK YOU
Tyler Ellis
Conor Davis
Electric Forest
LEC Event Technology
Brad Lyman
Patrick Balduchi
Thank you
Tyler Ellis
Conor Davis
Electric Forest
Brad Lyman
Patrick Balduchi
LEC Event Technology