GINGER IMMERSIVE

SOUND DESIGN, ART INSTALLATION, COMPOSITION

Widely used as a spice and in folk medicine, ginger has a keen ability to cleanse the palate to enjoy a variety of tastes. At the Music Tastes Good Festival in Long Beach last fall, Ginger was an immersive, multi-sensory experience. Housed in a 12 foot tall yurt-like structure resembling a Merkaba (a sacred space used for meditation) with a shape inspired by sacred geometry and walls made out of translucent fabric.

Small speakers were purposefully placed inside the structure to create a 360’ field of immersive sound. Festival attendees entered this sacred space to experience a surround sound mix of musical tones sculpting a vibrant soundscape. By evening, a new soft light source glowed from within the translucent structure, slowly transitioning through the full spectrum of colors, giving the installation a colorful “heartbeat” along with the immersive soundscape, further heightening communal awareness.

BY WAYFORMS & EDDY VAJARAKITIPONGSE

The Hyundai Project at LACMA is an unprecedented new partnership between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Hyundai Motor Company in South Korea. Hyundai's support of LACMA enables the museum to make significant strides in two important initiatives: Art + Technology and Korean art scholarship. The collaboration encompasses acquisitions, exhibitions, and publications through 2024.

For more information visit unframed.lacma.org/2015/03/26/the-hyundai-project.

LACMA 9 ART + FILM LAB

COMPOSITION, MIXING

For sixteen months in 2013 and 2014, Southern California communities experienced film as an art form, via the LACMA9 Art+Film Lab. The Art+Film Lab was a pop-up initiative that delivered film culture to the doorsteps of our region, visiting nine communities throughout Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Delivering free filmmaking workshops, a video-based oral history project, and outdoor movies, the Lab was a successful pop-up art initiative that came alive through community involvement.

The Lab commissioned artist Nicole Miller, who created the video series, "Believing is Seeing," embodying community stories that "deserved to be told." Miller used the Lab's gathered oral histories as a departure point. In addition to community-made works and oral history archives, you'll find stories from our route through blogs on LACMA's Unframed and KCET's Artbound.

Learn more about Art+Film at LACMA

FROM ONE PLACE TO THE NEXT // SF

COMPOSITION, PRODUCTION, MIXING

The journey we call life can often be paired down to moments of focus and flow. Similarly, the work of artist Erik Otto captures these two vital forces coming together to produce one harmonious result. This brief montage collectively celebrates a pivotal time in Otto’s career — the milestone of 10 years working as an artist in the city of San Francisco, a new remodeled studio, and the launch of an all new website. Through years of practice and dedication, a previous chapter comes to an end while a new one is revealed along with an earned sense of renewal. Moving forward, Otto sets forth with a refreshed sense of creative freedom to embrace a new set of challenges in the opportunities that lie ahead.

Visit  Erik Otto for more info. Video by Brian Chu (The Werehaus).

At the start of 2017, Erik Otto relocated his home base after 12 years from San Francisco to New York City and was compelled to make a body of work in the moments prior, during, and immediately after this time of transition. This video captures his transition from one place to the next.

Learn more at  Erik Otto. Video by Brian Chu (The Werehaus).