Sha Xin Wei – Concept & meta-physics
Jean-Sébastien Rousseau – video and particle programming
Timothy Sutton – Sound design and programming
Emmanuel Thivierge – state evolution and video feature extraction
Louis-Andre Fortin - visual design and programming
Freida Abtan – sound and systems design advisor
Meteor Shower is an experiment in gesture-controlled video and sound synthesis. Participants are represented as solar bodies with gravitational potential in a particle-based starfield. Built initially as a simple responsive environment, its next incarnation will incorporate state-aware behaviour, and further explore ideas of nature/artifice by building narrative structures involving “lunar characters.”
As a deployable installation, Meteor Shower holds potential as an environment for architectural installations, play spaces, and performance events – it is being designed with such flexibility in mind.