Laptop Music

Students in Christopher Douthitt’s course “Laptop Music” will perform their final projects in the Kemper Art Museum galleries. Students will activate various spaces through multichannel sound installations that respond to the architecture, artworks, and visitor interaction.

This year’s show features pieces for eight-channel spatial audio, a piece for headphones and video, a piece for freight elevator, a piece for live brainwave biofeedback, and more. There will be many interactive graphics and sounds. We will even have a live acoustic instrument.

One of the students describes his "Synesthetic Soundscape" project in reference to Surrealism in the Museum:
"The world of color and sound collide in this piece. Draw on a digital copy of this surrealism piece and listen as the colors you use change the texture of the music being played. Cellos, bells, and ambient sounds rise and fall as you use different colors free-draw or create rectangles and circles on the artwork." - Cade Edney, a junior majoring in computer science and minoring in music and linguistics.

Free and open to the public. Visitor parking available in th East End Garage. Visitors may also be dropped off at the Brookings Drive circle, located off of Skinker Boulevard.