With 7,000 individual LED bulbs and 8.2 channel audio, Unknown Atmospheres is a room-sized immersive light and sound installation. A fully-mirrored wall reflects everything in reverse, while flickering, flashing and pulsing shapes play in precise synchrony to an electronic surround-sound composition. Within a 5-minute loop, six different scenes follow each other in a series of cinematic hard-cuts, each scene a new landscape of sound and form. Visitors are invited to experience from the outside or to enter the piece and wander among the matrix.
Created in collaboration with Parallel Studio, light programming by Jesse Mejia.
Commissioned by Hopscotch Gallery, Portland OR.
June 2023
Seth Nehil 