Håkan Lidbo & Max Björverud

The Flooor

FILE BRASILIA 2017
DISRUPTIVA
Electronic Language International Festival

Abstract:
“The Flooor” is a collaborative music instrument and a social meeting place. 36 sensors under a carpet, connected to a music computer mounted under the floor and loudspeakers mounted in the ceiling.

The patterns printed on the carpet invite people to explore different combinations. 6 groups with different instruments, 6 zones in each group. By standing or dancing on different combinations of the 6 zones, 64 different loops can be triggered. Total 384 loops, all synchronized so that they all sound good in every possible combination. If no-one stands on any zone for more than 2 seconds, the loops in each group are randomly re-arranged. The whole floor can produce 68.000.000.000 combinations.

Music is a part of the very human construction. Music is an expression on gravity on earth and of our bodily proportions. Listening to and creating music together is also a very important social glue. In times where individual and passive consumption of music is taking over, a collaborative, physical music instrument like “The Flooor” can be of importance.

Biography:
Håkan Lidbo is a techno music producer that also makes sound art, interactive installations, apps, games and robots.

Max Björverud is a Swedish sound artist working with technology, interaction installations and urban sound.