M&J - Installation set design and Technical aspects

At another group meeting that took place today we had discussed and planned our installation further. We looked into the set design of the installation and the technical aspects of the installation.

We aim to build a set that would isolate the audience from everyone else. Placing them in a small surrounded area. The area will have four different doors that would allow access to the space. Depending on which door you choose to walk through will depend on which sound piece/environment you will get.

If you walk through;

Door 1: you will trigger a sound piece of a mountain environment.

Door 2: you will trigger a sound piece of a outdoor field/grasslands environment

Door 3: you will trigger a sound piece of a City environment

Door 4: you will trigger a sound piece of a volcano environment

Triggering the sound piece

The sound will be triggered when a door is opened. There is two possible ways we could do this.

The first being through a motion sensor. As seen below in the diagram. The motion sensor would be placed at the top of the door, while the other half of the sensor will be placed beside it on the structured wall, and when a member of the audience walks through one of the doors the motion sensor will trigger the sound piece.

The second possible trigger would be to have a button trigger. As seen in the diagram below. The button trigger would be placed on the side, near the door of the structured wall, and when the audience opens one of the doors the door would push down on the button trigger. This would trigger the sound piece. The only problem we thought we would encounter with this specific technique is the audience not fully opening the door causing the sound piece not to play. But this all depends on the size (Measurements) of the overall space, as if we have a smaller area this method could work whereas a larger area we would be better off with a motion sensor.

Equipment needed:

For the set:

• mdf board or osb board for the main structure x4 (Measurements will be prepared once we know the size of the space we have available to us)
• Speakers x4
• LED or Bulbed lights x10 (2 lights per colour, all depending on the size and power of the light)
• Doors x4
• Trigger x 4 (Either motion or button)
• Standard building equipment (Drill, screws, door hinges etc)  

For the sound

• Marantz recorder
• Boom pole
• Pro Tools software for the editing