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# HoloDecks
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/holodecks/
- Published: 2013-12-18T09:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:00:17.000Z
- Description: Visualising music to create augmented sound sculptures
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Music, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Led by interaction designer [Lukasz Karluk](http://www.julapy.com/work/featured/?ref=protein.xyz), [HoloDecks](http://vimeo.com/81155465?ref=protein.xyz) is an umbrella title given to a number of projects which focus on transforming sound through different mediums. As with Electric Deluxe’s [Audio Transmitted Merchandise](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/08/audio-transmitted-merchandise?ref=protein.xyz), this is best realised in HoloDecks as visualising sound waves; in this instance, first as a computer rendering and subsequently as a 3D sculpture.   
  
Beginning with an audio track, (‘Zebra’, by Oneohtrix Point Never), Karluk visualised sound waves using a custom application built in openFrameworks. The base shape for these visualisations was set as a disc - a ubiquitous form associated with modern music storage - with audio data from the song displacing the shape’s geometry and creating visual abstractions of the audio’s last few seconds of playback. Taking a snapshot of the generated rendering, Karluk then exported an image file to a Makerbot 3D printer which materialised the data into a physical sculpture. This print solidified a trisector of technologically processed formats; ranging from pure audio data, to software visualisation, to 3D modelling; a fairly accurate representation of the direction music visualisation is heading.   
  
A final transformation takes place by using a mobile device to augment the 3D printed sculpture, revealing another level of audio reactive visuals mapped over the object. If it sounds complicated, that's because it is. Take a look at the demonstration video above for a closer look at the project's development. A variety of Karluk's sound sculptures are available [here](http://www.shapeways.com/model/1451490/holodecks-swirl.html?ref=protein.xyz).

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