Laser Symphony is an interactive and immersive laser installation that establishes an intimate relationship with the physical space it interprets and the public it involves in the experience.
An audiovisual choreography of laser beams and laser graphic animations, interlaced with spatialized sounds, is triggered by the movement of the audience that walks freely through a dreamlike version of the space reinterpreted by Onda.
When crossed by visitors, each laser beam, that weaves along the ground in a network of red lines, activates a specific localized sound and a dedicated laser projection that illuminates and emphasizes the meaning and forms of the surrounding architecture and the natural elements that distinguish the venue.

Mutek Montreal – CA – 2024

Bella Skyway Torun – PL – 2018

Staro Riga – LV- 2017

The public walks freely through the network of interwoven red lasers at ground level. Each laser beam, when crossed, triggers a specific musical note of a suggestive set of custom sounds, activating at the same time a laser mapping projection that highlights geometries, details and forms of the surrounding architectural facades.
The spatial audio system gives the installation a further perceptual dimension, bringing visitors into a dynamic and contemplative audiovisual experience that projects them beyond the physical space.

The installation was exhibited in:

• Montreal, Canada 2024
• Leeuwarden, Netherlands 2021
• Torun, Poland 2018
• Messina, Italy 2017
• Riga, Latvia 2017
• Cremona, Italy 2017

MAKING OF

We live in a world that celebrates diversity yet often struggles to truly embrace it. We are more connected than ever, yet real connection feels increasingly rare. Faces is an interactive art installation that challenges this paradox, inviting us to rediscover authenticity through a shared experience. By merging and intertwining faces, it creates a dynamic collective portrait, a mosaic where every individual is essential to the whole.

More than just an artwork, Faces transforms public and private spaces into symbols of unity, diversity, and belonging.

Here, the smartphone -so often a tool for curated self-representation- becomes a bridge to real interaction. Instead of isolating us behind screens, it amplifies our presence, allowing us to contribute to an ever-evolving artwork.

Inspired by the idea of patchwork quilts, Faces sparks dialogue, fosters real connection, and invites us to see ourselves in one another, unfiltered, unique, and part of something greater.

Interacting with the Faces project is made possible through the Phone2AV system—an innovative and highly sophisticated proprietary web-based technology. This system allows, without the need for any app, simple and intuitive real-time interaction between the audience’s devices and the various digital technologies used to transmit content and messages. The distinctive features of the system offer extraordinary potential for exploring new frontiers of contemporary audiovisual communication across a wide range of fields and contexts.

Participation: Visitors can access a dedicated webpage by simply scanning a QR code, where they are prompted to take a selfie.

The web interface ensures inclusivity, allowing people from all over the world to contribute to the artwork. Each selfie is processed within seconds and algorithmically divided into facial segments: eyes, nose, and mouth.

Image Processing: These facial elements are first displayed in a randomized shuffle across the entire visual surface for a few seconds, offering instant gratification to the latest participant. Then, they are blended with all previous contributions to form a new, ever-evolving patchwork.

Faces was first exhibited during the Superconnection exhibition, dedicated to the projects of Onda Studio, in collaboration with Spazio Milesi and with the technical support of Epson and STS Communication.

‘Where are we going?’ is a web-based audiovisual interactive installation that engages with the public resing though
about our direction in the world, our choices, and the impact of technology on them. It reflects our course, which is (un)consciously determined by the use of technology and the behavior of others.

As a visitor, you are part of ‘Where are we going?’ and move through technology within the light artwork. In the interactive
audiovisual installation, you are connected to the twelve LED screens via your own smartphone, and assigned a color and
sound. Turn around with your smartphone in hand and see how it affects the light and sound artwork. All those sounds and dancing graphics provide a challenge, a game, and a meeting between art, technology, and other visitors.

Were are we going? premiered in Eindhoven at Glow Festival 2023, with more than 58.000 people interacting during 7 days of festival.

SUPERCONNECTION was the first exhibition dedicated to the works of Onda Studio, held at Spazio Millesi in Milan from November 28 to December 14, 2024. The exibition explored the power of connection at different levels through digital and interactive installations that connected, in real time, different realities: the physical and digital world, the artwork and the public, movement and space, the individual and the community.

The projects connected forms and perceptions through images, sound, light, space, and smartphones, creating a shared experience that went beyond contemplation.

To conclude the Superconnection exhibition, which offered an innovative reflection on our relationship with technology, we were pleased to announce a special closing event featuring internationally experienced visual and multimedia artist Riccardo Giovinetto.

CLOSING PARTY

– AV Live Interactive Performance + Live Phone Show feat. Riccardo Giovinetto
– Friday, Dec. 13. 2024 – h. 6 p.m.
– Spazio Millesi | Via Casati 29, Milan

During the event, a cutting-edge proprietary web-based system was employed to enable effortless and intuitive real-time engagement of the audience, linking their smartphones to the audiovisual performance. In this manner, the viewer transcended the traditional role of passive observer and became an active participant in the artistic experience.

Credits:
_Artistic Direction
MARCELLO AROSIO
_Programming, development
DAVIDE CAPPELLETTI, VINCENZO SIRACUSANO
_Production
ONDA STUDIO
Marcello Arosio, Carlotta Fumagalli, Davide Cappelletti, Vincenzo Siracusano, Paola Tagliabue, Alessandro Sasso, Jekaterina Kanevskaja, Vera Minali

In collaboration with Spazio Milesi
With the technical support of Epson and STS Communication

A participatory project in which performing art, light and technology meet to give life to collective itinerant artistic performances, which bring music and dance “to the streets”, accompanied by the dynamism of lights and colors that characterize the luminous costumes of the performers.

From the programming of the lighting elements to the composition of an ensemble choreography, the project involves the community at various levels.

A Light Parade open to all, capable of involving the public and making them part of an inclusive and one-of-a-kind experience.

The Light Parade performance was first created for the 2023 Kernel Festival in Monza, conceived by AreaOdeon and produced by Onda Studio.

Laughters are one of the curious paradoxes of our life, because they express complex and deep emotions that are difficult to narrate, with an immediate, instinctive and physical reaction.

A collaboration with Delumen for Kernel Monza /022.

Scenographic 3D Mapping videos cover the building with dynamic and elegant graphics and animations that reflect the Client style and colors.

A triptych of light and sound installations born as a way to enhance abandoned and unusable architecture. Through the aid of wireless headphones with three channels each associated with an installation, the spectator was able to move from one pavilion to another, maintaining a connection between the lights and the music.

A fast-paced audiovisual show capture the audience with a crescendo of three-dimensional visual effects that redesign the architecture of the façade in synesthesia with the music.

Kinetic audiovisual laser installation that challenges the ordinary perception of a space using the reflection of light, and the spatialization of the sound that accompanies it.

Suitable for interior locations and venues, as well as exterior spaces, like plazas, parks, and boulevards, this artwork engages the audience in a journey through an alternative dimension of unexpected
geometries, where space and perspective are redefined.

The artwork is an ever-changing choreography of light and sound, shaped by the movements of the lasers, and their reflections within the boundaries of the defined volume, offering a new perception of depth.