BALOICA
INTERACTIVE MUSICAL SWINGS, 2013
ELAS DUAS (PT)
Baloica is an interactive sound installation that transforms a swing set into a musical instrument. A Kinect motion-sensor captures the movement of the people on the swings as they rock back and forth, triggering different sounds. The more people on the swings, the more complex the music gets.
Baloica is a collaborative experience as users search for consonance and harmony between their swings, trying to find pleasant sounds and compose their own tunes.
BIO
Elas Duas is a multidisciplinary studio founded by Claudia Oliveira and Isabel Bourbon. Based in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, their work merges tradition and technology into new collaborative and immersive experiences.
They try to find parallels between the old and the new, and create new life out of old artefacts and traditions in multimedia projects that connect familiar interactions with new digital experiences. Their work has been covered in Creative Applications, Gizmodo, and The Discovery Channel.