17/05/2020
MID was invited by curator Rosa Pera to design and develop an installation for the exhibition “FLAIX 2042, 25 years of radio“ which took place in Palau Robert, Barcelona in 2017.
The TIMELINE is an interactive piece of 14-meter total length with an interactive surface of 150 sensitive points. We develop a hardware device to play and interact with these points that we call TUNER, with an embedded audio player, integrated speaker and rechargeable battery that allows it to detect the TIMELINE sensors and trigger the corresponding sound track. It incorporates a RFID reader and an accelerometer sensor. When the device approaches each point, we can listen to what is hidden there. You also can tune different tracks by moving the TUNER to other points. If you rotate it, you can change the sound source in real time (songs, jingles or programs) and the device responds with color feedback.
A light backlight for the timeline that allows you to visualize the active tracks in real time and give you the information of the different states of the piece. The installation runs with custom-made software to control the LED screen for the light feedback, and the modes of operation. The software generates the animations in real time, receiving the information wirelessly from the TUNER SPEAKERS, while the sound is playing.