Bioluminescence @ Falling Leaf Festival Tumut

With Autumn comes the 70th year of the Falling Leaf Festival in Tumut and Bioluminescence was invited to come along and light up the centre of town in the Connection Centre and ten local young people signed up to be a part of it!

Hello Tumut! Bioluminescence has arrived for the @fallingleaffestivaltumut and we have had day one of our workshop. The weather is amazing, so after a quick digital camera primer and some tips on how to get better video the crew headed down to the park and the river to start our content creation. The falling leaves made for some spectacular video opportunities from slow-motion leaves falling in the breeze to the leaves floating down the river. Colours everywhere! We even sampled the sounds of the leaves crunching as we walked over them for the soundscape we will create for Friday night. The workshop location is in the heritage Brooklyn on Fitzroy in the dining lounge - luxury!!! We even got a mention in the local paper! Bring on day two!

Day two at @fallingleaffestivaltumut kicked off with some projector tests over breakfast before heading to Brooklyn on Fitzroy for the day two workshop to learn about @resolume, MIDI controllers and how we can use all of the 78 video clips they made the previous day to build the show for Friday night. Then we jumped into the projection mapping process learning about projectors, throw distances, lumens and all of the cables needed to bring it together. We set up two @heavym_software stations and did some mapping practice while others created soundscapes using Samplr and audio field recordings. A quick bit of dinner before heading to site and starting the install. We managed to get all of the projectors installed, the mapping done and we were ready for the performance!

Day three at the @fallingleaffestivaltumut was show night! Starting with a crew dinner, a quick crew photo and then a whole bunch of running around to set up lights, get the tech ready at our two operations stations and then hiding the bluetooth speakers around the site and then checking to make sure the mapping from the previous night was still where it was meant to be, we were busy! As the sun went down and the gates opened everyone took their places and we delivered almost three hours of constantly morphing sound and vision across the amazing architecture of the Connection Centre in Tumut. Then the crowds came! There were plenty of sights and sounds for the audience to experience including @isaacliehne and his wrist mounted projector, the Beyard, the video microscope to look at things we found along the river and live sampling of people talking to add to the abstract soundscape filling the space. The ten young people rocked that space and blew minds with what they created and shared. Thank you to the @fallingleaffestivaltumut committee for hosting us, the people of Tumut for making us feel so welcome and the young people who gave up a few days of their holidays to be a part of Bioluminescence!