Make – Attaya Projects

Beyond the Borders (Dilly Arts)

Lalya — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 03:14:58 +0000

Beyond the Borders is a project led by Dilly Arts to which Attaya Projects contributed. It resulted in a permanent museum exhibition at Hexham Old Gaol – the oldest purpose-built prison in England, dating back to the time of the Border Reivers. Augmented-reality “time windows” bring visitors back in time to meet prisoners of the past narrating their stories (all historically accurate), as written by current local North East England prisoners.

Hexham Old Gaol, Northumberland, UK

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Noble Bloods by Louise Marchal

Lalya — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:36:19 +0000

‘Noble Bloods’ is an Arts Council-funded multimedia art installation created by UK artist Louise Marchal in response to a WWI memorial by Frances Darlington. We helped Louise realise this piece by mapping a video projection onto an artefact within the installation.

“Through referencing film and art contemporary to World War One I sought to delineate the transition from nineteenth century perceptions of war to those of the twentieth century.”

– Louise Marchal

The piece – which underlines the absurdity of war romanticism – was exhibited at Ripon Prison and Police Museum from 16th August to 30th November 2014 as part of the the 2014 commemorations for World War One, during which time it was included in the Great North Art Show’s Art Trail.

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Cycles of Brass

Lalya — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:15:55 +0000

Cycles of Brass is a digital media art installation by Lalya Gaye, Alexander Berman and Filip Strebeyko, which aims to foster a reflection on the resilience, vulnerability and transient nature of Northern English brass music culture throughout history. It visually, sonically and metaphorically links this question to the physicality of brass – the material that shapes the musical aesthetics and history of brass music – and to the transformative impact of time and context.

Two formerly discarded brass instruments are suspended in separate transparent water tanks and exposed to opposite transformative chemical reactions; one progressively decaying, and the other being progressively restored throughout a period of three months. These processes are translated into an abstract brass soundscape that changes in parallel with the instruments using sensor and sound processing technology, thereby linking the physical transformation of the instruments to the acoustic realm for which they were created: a webcam senses the visual changes on the surface of the brass using Processing, while a Supercollider sound processor modifies bespoke samples of brass sounds based on the changes of sensor values through time.

‘Cycles of Brass’ was commissioned by Brass:Pitch, the digital media art programme at the Brass International Festival, and co-funded by the Arts Council England and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. It was on view at the DLI Art Gallery in Durham, UK, between 28th June and 21st of September 2014, during which time the piece was gradually changing, both visually and sonically.

Besides the installation, this project also included two hands-on workshops about art and science delivered by the artists to groups of students from the local schools Durham Gilesgate Sixth Form College and East Durham College.

Cycles of Brass from Attaya Projects

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Campus:Live

Lalya — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:25:16 +0000

Campus:Live is a final degree project by architecture student Fabian Danker, realised for the 2014 ¡VAMOS! Festival in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Fabian Danker designed and constructed a chill-out pavilion for this annual festival that celebrates Latin and Lusophone culture. The structure creates an experiential micro-climate, in which responsive lighting and a bespoke soundscape (by sound artist James Armstrong aka Slow Clinic) reflect Latin American culture: experientially transporting visitors to the subcontinent. The piece was presented at each weekend site of the ¡VAMOS! Festival throughout its duration, as well as the Northumbria Architecture final degree show.

Attaya Projects partly sponsored the project by designing interactive lighting to the piece. The role of the lightning was to bring the pavilion to life by making it visually react to the soundscape provided by the sound artist. Therefore, we used sound-activated RGB LED-strips (based on a LadyAda design) that followed the architectural lines of the structure.

Other sponsors include Northumbria University, Decorpanel Limited, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), BAM Construct UK, Willmott Dixon Construction, Norbord, Max Fixings, and s h e d (Studio Horn Engineering Design).

Photo by Dru Dodd

Fabian Danker’s model of the pavilion

Pavilion’s flooring

Electronics for the lighting

Tests and installation

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Upstairs

Lalya — Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:30:53 +0000

Upstairs was an interactive sound installation that spread ghostly snippets of classic film dialogues in the staircase of a historical cinema building. As cinema visitors walked up and down the staircase, steps lighted up and triggered surprising and unexpected narratives. The installation ran for two and a half months, and ended with a live remix... Read more...

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