The Arts of the Future

The World of Chromasonic is Built of Pure Light and Sound

photo By Joshua White

photo By Joshua White

Light and sound are two of our primary human senses. These sensorial pathways have been eloquently engaged in immersive experiences created by Chromasonic in Venice, California. Unleashing the power of light and sound for personal and communal experiences, Chromasonic invites us to see the world with multi-colored glasses.

Don’t let the word immersive scare you, Chromasonic’s experiential environments are not here to overwhelm you. Steadying rather than dizzying, the walk-in abstract color-field star-chambers are constructed of pure light and ambient sound. A post-algorithm update to the Light and Space movement, but with proprietary synesthetic technology and a mission to harness the power of art in elevating empathetic consciousness, Chromasonic experiences transcend spectacle and head straight for the universe inside. L.A. Weekly sat down with the team behind Chromasonic to learn more.

The studio’s founders are noted installation and multimedia artist Johannes Girardoni, and internationally acclaimed musicians and sound artists Orpheo McCord and Joel Shearer. Alone and in tandem each of them have pursued paths that converged at the intersection of light and sound made physical, wondering what it would be like to express color and sound as a single expressive act. After four years of figuring it out as a team, they created a real-time, sensory technology called Chromasonic Refrequencing, which translates music into both an abstract soundscape and an organically, algorithmically synced composition of pure color-saturated light — and deploys this magic through the very walls of the architectural spaces that contain it... Read More at L.A. Weekly"