Solar United Natives Festival 2015
My very first LED installation happened at Solar United Natives Festival 2015, a music festival in Hungary. The stage had two 2.5 m long digital strips on each side with analog RGB strips on the wooden structure on the front bottom part. To make it more interesting, I took the audio signal from the stage and used it to generate the colors for both types of strips. I processed the audio signal in PureData with a modular patch system I did specifically for this purpose, that enabled me to enable/disable, reorder, and alter the modules on the fly. Color data was sent back to the stage over a wired IP network, where a miniPC was used to send it out to a Teensy 3.1 with OctoWS2811 shield and an Arduino Duemillanove that handled the digital and the analog strips, respectively. The latency of the system was around 20 milliseconds so in the middle of the dancefloor the sound and the visuals were approximately in sync.
