IMMERSIVE ARTIST

SONOLUMIN

A stop-frame animated 360° fulldome film exploring the relationship of light, sound, and space.

SONOLUMIN is an animated 360 fulldome film captured in real world space using light and long exposure photography captured frame by frame. It premiered in August to launch the first Macon Fulldome Festival. The film and immersive performance (noted below) were made with support from the Knight Foundation and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA.
The film was shot in two locations, the Old Sheldon Church Ruins in South Carolina and the Driftwood Beach at Jekyll Island, Georgia. As light reveals portions of each location, a new location emerges -- a hybrid of the two.
Below is video documentation of SONOLUMIN playing inside the dome theater (in the first 5 minutes) as part of a live musical experience entitled M.O.D.E. (Musical Optical Dome Experience). I served as the immersive artist, creating all the visuals projected onto the dome, and director of the live experience. The total program was 30 minutes in length.
PROJECT OVERVIEW 
Role: Commissioned Artist & Immersive Performance Director
Score: Thad Anderson
Client: The Knight Foundation, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA
Run Time: 5:00 SONOLUMIN & 30:00  M.O.D.E.
Completed: 2018 
AWARDS
Best Sound Experience (Dec 2021), IMMERSPHERE fulldome festival
Jury’s Citation Award (Jan 2020), Black Maria’s 39th Annual Festival Tour - 2020
Best Artistic Dome Short (Oct 2019), Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival
Best Fulldome Short Film (May 2019), 13th Fulldome Festival Jena, Germany
MODE at Museum of Arts and Sciences Macon
MODE at Museum of Arts and Sciences Macon
Setting up to film the Old Sheldon Church Ruins in SC
Setting up to film the Old Sheldon Church Ruins in SC
The film used stop frame light paint animation, captured with long exposure photography.
The film used stop frame light paint animation, captured with long exposure photography.
A still image capture from the Driftwood Beach in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
A still image capture from the Driftwood Beach in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
The graphic elements in the filmwere extruded into real world space uisng the pixelstick.
The graphic elements in the filmwere extruded into real world space uisng the pixelstick.
The more graphic elements were extruded using a Pixel Stick, an LED wand that can extrude preprogrammed images. This shows the behind the scenes
The more graphic elements were extruded using a Pixel Stick, an LED wand that can extrude preprogrammed images. This shows the behind the scenes
This shows the result. For this sequence, 15 images were extruded with the pixel stick.
This shows the result. For this sequence, 15 images were extruded with the pixel stick.
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