Lumitectura: Music Video about the relation of light, music and architecture

Lumitectura from barno on Vimeo.

wow...one of the more amazing music videos out there. It's as if someone is playing the music on this building and surrounding landscape.

Musicvideo about the relation of light, music and architetcture.

Music by Saltillo
"The Opening" from the album Ganglion.
Go get it on itunes and amazon!

The clip is defined by 3 elements.

-One videofile, shot between 2 and 6 pm.
-The speed of playback of this file, which is synchronised manually to the music.
-About 50 different masks, wich define where the underlayed movie is going to appear on the screen. This makes it possible to have multiple light situations in the same moment.

So basicly, the sunlight caught from the building is the "natural" palette for the entire colors of the clip.

From ONEEIGHTNINE

Created by Arno Bruderer a student of the Institute of Technology in Zürich , Lumitectura is a short visual piece that looks into the relationship between light, music and architecture. Since 2000 Arno has made time free for him to practice his video filming and editing skills so what we see in front of us now is the result of ten years practice. I had a short conversation with Arno and he said to me the work of Oskar Fischinger, who is a german abstract animator, filmmaker and painter was his main influence for this piece. the concept was to find synergies between architecture and light, a brief given by the client, the professorship of Gregor Eichinger who holds the view that architecture is not only building for the needs of people, but also a part of our cultural production. Arno believes that in this way, architects have to be open and attentive for other parts of culture, music, videos and so forth.

Heres what the creator had to say about the piece :

“In some ways, there are big similarities between the work of an architect and the work of an instrument maker. They care about the durability of their object, the design (“firmitas” and “venustas” as Vitruvius would say) and most importantly, both craftsmen have to provide a tool, which has a potential in it, that they eventually cannot influence. What they can do, is to give this tool big abilities to be used. While the instrument maker designs his object mostly in regard of music, which is probably one of the most abstract artforms that exists, architecture is also in strong demand of usabilty (“utilitas”) which is something quite trivial, but not easy to achieve. So in the end, architecture does play its “music” on many different layers, and one of them is light, and that’s what this music video is about’

Music is from the album “Ganglion” by Menton J Matthews III