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Some of the Media Lab Toronto gang are hard at work getting ready for a great project. Gabe Sawhney, David MacCallum and Patrick Dinnen are working on an interactive light show to run on a giant canopy of LED lit balloons to be installed above the Yonge-Dundas square for the Luminato Festival.

The spectacle will be made up of 250 4-6 foot balloons strung above the square from a spider’s web of cables. Each balloon will be lit from inside by an array of red, green and blue LEDs (for infinite colour mixing possibility). The physical installation is the work of KPMB architects. We’re working on designing and creating a series of lighting effects which will be triggered by the sounds picked up from the square below.

The show kicks off this Friday night, June 6, and runs for 5 days. Stay tuned for more info once our collective noses come up off the grindstone for long enough.