All week I was looking forward to sharing this with everyone at the meeting, then the snow came, and memories flooded back, and, well, you know the rest. I would much rather try to explain it in person, but don't want to wait until April, so here goes...
As I daydremed about the theme of Burning Man this year, specifically "man's interaction with nature", things drifted in and out of my head. A wall of stained glass that created images at certain times of the day and angle of sun...kind of a Raiders of the Lost Ark thing (when Dr. Jones is down in the pit with his staff of the right height).
How about a grid of shaded solar cells, all attached to drivers that turn on and off a single musical note? The grid could be oriented such that, due to the shading of each cell, only a few solar cells are activated in the early morning, but, as the day went on, different cells would turn on, get louder, more and more ramping up until finally crescendoing at a certain time or times (noon, 2pm, etc) and, as the sun went down, slowly fade away. This grid could play a tune, a series of tunes, or whatever we wanted.
I have no idea of the logistics behind this, but it would be awesome to pull it off.
---Baron All
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hmmm... A synaesthesiac transmogrify of light into sound! What does 11:30am on a partly cloudy summer day in the desert sound like?
Do people just watch, or are there ways to play with this? Change the tilt on the solar panel boards? What will this sound like? Will we want it near our camp? Sun-played piano.
If we wanted to get really fancy we could set it up such that people could shade parts or all of it, somehow. The idea being that it ramps up to a full crescendo over the course of and hour or two in the morning, then at full blast during midday people could shade different parts to alter the noise. Hmmmm....
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