THE ARTWORK
Domino Effect by Ingrid Ingrid takes the traditional tabletop game of dominoes and transposes it to the scale of giants, transforming domino suites into colorful musical instruments of an urban collaborative orchestra.
Set off a chain reaction by dropping dominoes to unleash a cascade of musical notes and a wave of colorful lights.
Each domino station offers a different sound universe: voice, percussion, marimba, balafon, and flute. Play with several people at the same time on different stations to create harmonies and build a unique piece of music!
THE ARTIST
INGRID INGRID
Ingrid Ingrid is an interactive experience design studio based in Montreal. Founded in 2014 by Geneviève Levasseur, Ingrid Ingrid initiates and develops innovative projects that are at the intersection of arts and technology.
Her creations are playful, off-screen, and show a
particular sensitivity for content. Ingrid Ingrid shakes up habits; She experiments, documents and reinvents the relationship with what surrounds us.
Geneviève Levasseur, president and creative director at Ingrid Ingrid.
© Rodolphe Beaulieu
CREATIVE INTENTION
Cascading dominoes is a hobby known to all: simple, fun and universal.
With Domino Effect, it is reinvented to offer a massive, active, sonic and colorful version that aims to set off encounters and collaboration.
Geneviève Levasseur, creative director for Domino Effect, explains that the name of the installation as well as the physics principle of its mechanism evoke the expression "domino effect" in its broader sense, which refers to a chain reaction.
Domino effect is an expression that has spread in several fields, from geopolitics to finance. However, it initially refers to the series of successive falls that are triggered in a line of dominoes when the first domino is toppled: the latter drags the adjacent domino down with it, which in turn topples the next, and so on.
Synonymous with chain effects more broadly, Domino Effect then becomes a metaphor that evokes the idea of the positive effect that people can have on each other when gathered around collaboration and exchange.
ARTISTIC APPROACH
To allow any user to become a musician for a day, Domino Effect relies on a technology which makes it possible to generate sound through the movement of objects, designed by sound designer Myriam Bleau : "with Domino Effect, we have created something that is very close to an instrument (...) while remaining a playground."
Bleau explains that the main challenge in designing Domino Effect was to find a way to make all the sounds pleasurable as a whole…
The balafon, an instrument of African origin.
© Adama Diabaté & BaraGnouma
The marimba, of South American origin.
© Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo
"WE WANTED TO HAVE A COMBINATION OF DIGITAL SOUNDS AND REAL SOUNDS, TO PRESERVE THE WARM SONIC DIMENSION. WE'RE IN LOVE WITH THE FLUTE, SO THERE'S A LOT OF FLUTE! AND WE HAD FUN WITH THE HUMAN VOICE, CREATING A SERIES OF ONOMATOPOEIAS AND MOUTH NOISES. IT ALSO SEEMED EFFECTIVE TO US TO USE SOUNDS THAT STRETCH, THAT ARE AIRIER, THAT HAVE A BEAUTIFUL RESONANCE, LIKE MARIMBA."
- Myriam Bleau, sound designer of Domino Effect
while the installation is composed of 120 different dominoes, each bearing their own individual sound, that can be handled by the audience at the same time!
The 120 different sounds are grouped under 4 musical families: balafon, marimba, percussive voices, flute.
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