Overview of Green Shoes: Burningman 2007
The Green Dot/Green Shoes, is a light pulsing, interactive, educational soundscape.
As participants pass through an aural veil of chorus frog voices they are
detected by motion sensors within the interior field of hundreds of pulse-luminous
shoes. The chorus frog voices quiet at the approach of the viewer, and as
they are sensed by a pair of shoes, the pair of shoes lights and glows for
several moments, a sound begins to play .
The shoes play sounds from the realms of the world: marine, terra, and the interior world: water, animal noises, bird calls, breath and heart beats. An overlapping aural map of the world pulses into life and dissipates with the passage of each visitor. To walk through the field of luminous shoes is to interact directly with the sounds of the planet, to create a personal light and sound expression of the environment.
The trail of each participant remains glowing for a few moments, then fades, until touched off by another movement.
Click to hear "bird
surround", a preview sound from the piece.
Click to hear "GS ProtoEnvironment"
a sound mock up mixing the central hub "heart beat" with individual
sounds from the shoe units: what it may sound like from inside. (Created by
Gerry Basserman.)
Solar Power
The installation will operate using low power LED lights powered by an array
of 350 amp, 12 volt batteries. The batteries will be charged by a series of
solar panels.
Philosophical Statement
Each installation in this ongoing piece has been created to address a specific
person of place that could benefit from the introduction of a positive intention.
This installation is intended for the Burning Man community in 2007, and for
the green world.
For more words about this intention please see the downloadable pdf document for the project.
James Mitchell
The Clean up Kid
David Rodriguez
Electro "D"
Maria "G.B." Catoline
Simone Whitecloud
The Chirpinator
Gerry Basserman
King of Sound
Cerryl Fidelman
The Poet
Julian Nadel
W.T.P. Nadel
Seano
When?
The Green Squad
A thousand
thanks to the dedication, thoughtfulness and steady support of these folks
below and all the others who helped to create this challenging, complicated
piece!
07.01.07
Burncast interview
Many thanks to Da Bomb for creating a "Burncast" interview about
the history of the Green Dot up through the creation of this Green Shoes incarnation.
To listen go to: www.nospectators.com/burncasts/Burncast_048.m4a
07.10.07
Our placement of the playa:
We've been offered and extraodinary spot on the playa, we'll be on the meridian
after the Temple.
Thanks Burningman!
Lesley Freeman
CCC/AA
Alex Lazarus
All Around Alex
Isa Lemon
The Fixer
Mona Caron
The Plastinator
Jonathan Miller
Electric(s) Guru
Electric Impulse
We created this circuitry to bring the shoes to light (and sound). A master
controller board controls the field of shoes via these two boards.
Paz de la Calzada
The Resinator
Denzil Meyers
The Man with a Plan
Jordana...
Buzz
Greg Fry
H.D.P.E.G.
Mike Fleishner
Rings
08.07
Final prep.
Sleepless nights and p-i-l-e-s of shoes!
Thanks to Matt Stevens and Simone Whitecloud for snapping some of these pictures.
08.07 – 09.07
The Playa
More work, and storms, and trenches to dig, and finally... light and sound.
The light trails in the lower picture were made by the lights of viewers as
they passed through the field, the shutter speed of this shot was too slow
to capture anything more than the lights the visitors carried with them.
09.07
Clean up
More dust, more wind, more rain... until at last it was done.
