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Swarovski, Tord Boontje and Yamaha collaborate during London Design Festival

Swarovski, Tord Boontje and Yamaha collaborate during London Design Festival
Swarovski, Tord Boontje and Yamaha collaborate during London Design Festival

London Design Festival 2017 (September 16th-24th) saw the global launch of Tord Boontje’s new collection of chandelier and crystal lighting components, designed exclusively for Swarovski Crystal Palace in his 15th year of collaboration with Swarovski. The installation included a soundscape which was created in collaboration with sound artist Manabu Shimada and was presented via a surround sound system provided by Yamaha.

 

The installation was accompanied by a quadraphonic surround soundscape, delivered by four Yamaha VXS3F loudspeakers and a VXS3S sub in each room. The use of a Yamaha MTX5-D matrix processor assisted the soundscape to be altered in real time by people using Twitter.

 

The sound field in each space had been created from four separate tracks of composed music and ambient effects, run from a Macbook Pro via a Steinberg UR824 audio interface. The MTX5-D was used to create an audio matrix and control EQ and speaker processing.

 

“Shimada has created a randomly-programmable software control, which responds in real time to tweets from anyone, anywhere in the world. Working with Swarovski, he has allocated key trigger words which adjust the parameters for each individual track in real time,” explains Yamaha senior product specialist Karl Christmas, who designed and specified the Yamaha system. “Each trigger word changes one of the parameters, including direction and position within the soundfield, velocity, pitch, volume and channel on/off.”

 

Tord Boontje has collaborated with Swarovski for fifteen years on projects ranging from homeware to lighting and jewellery to installations. This time, Boontje collaborated with Swarovski to produce Luminous Reflections, a collection of three crystal lighting components (Arc, Swirl, Circle) and four lighting designs (Luminous Bough, Lustrous Aura, Shimmering Jewel, Radiant Light) released under the revived Swarovski Crystal Palace.

 

(Photos: Mark Cocksedge)

 

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Swarovski, Tord Boontje and Yamaha collaborate during London Design FestivalSwarovski, Tord Boontje and Yamaha collaborate during London Design Festival

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