sunlight spectrum sonification
2022
With approximately 6.5 million cone cells that sense the three colors of red, green, and blue, the human eye is a 3-channel 6.5-megapixel camera. The project attempted to capture the sunlight from sunrise to sunset using two contrasting observation methods to help perceive it differently from everyday life. One is an observation by a spectral sensor that captures 288 colors but has only one pixel. The other is an observation by an omnidirectional camera that captures only one color (brightness) but has 16,588,800 pixels. In the installation, the light distribution recorded every second from sunrise to sunset by a spectral sensor is converted into a sound distribution and output from the speakers. The images projected on the screen were taken by an omnidirectional camera and developed around the sun.
Gallery
Video Documentation
Exhibition view in Iwami Art Museum
variation and exhibitions
- prototype: Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, 2022, Tokyo, Japan
- version 1: Iwami Art Museum, 2022, Shimane Pref., Japan
- version 2: Art Düsseldorf, 2025, Düsseldorf, Germany
- version 3: 2026, collection of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
development
360° camera set to face to the south.
fog on the sea surface
the first data logging from sunrise to sunset
temparture dropped to -18°C in the morning
fog on the sea surface