skyline from Amanda Ghassaei on Vimeo.
"light sensitive device responding to ambient infrared light from the sun. At sunset and sunrise the intensity of light causes the array of 64 infrared photosensors to randomly trigger for about five minutes (before this time they are over-saturated and cannot reset to an "off" state, and after this time there is not enough light to produce an "on" message). This stream of random data was sent to an additive synthesis patch in Max/MSP: in effect, translating ambient light into ambient sound.
patch is '"slide" by tehn for monome
filmed at sunset at gasworks park in seattle
*note: the lower frequencies in this video may be inaudible on laptop speakers"