Dome Alert! [attn Brad]
This joint rocks back
A geodesic dome becomes an instrument in Santa Monica.
... The dome is 60 feet in diameter and about 30 feet tall. Its skin works as a resonating surface for hundreds of strings and harp wires on the interior and exterior. It also serves as a canvas for 360-degree projections that accompany the music, with room for an audience of 350 ...
One of the songs, "Right Down to You," is an unreleased work written by filmmaker David Lynch and vocalist Chrysta Bell. (The Sunday performance will be a fundraiser for the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, which promotes Transcendental Meditation.)
As all the pieces play, projected graphics travel across the inside of the dome... "We call it animated architecture," said Jody Levy, an o2 Creative Solutions director... The company uses five projectors and an optical blending system cued to the notes played on the instruments...
"The playing physically drives the animation across the entire dome, breathing life into the architectural structure," Levy said. "What we do is based on experiential design, bringing together multimedia designs in nontraditional ways to tell stories and touch the senses."
Said Close: "The visuals really transform the whole space into another environment. All of a sudden you're sitting in a landscape."