Tech Art
&
Ecology

Material : Reclaimed wood, raw steel, hemp rope

Dimension : ⌀1.90m, 2.0m(H)

Backstory

Back in the day I worked at Nest Recorders, a studio in East LA as an assisstant engineer where my boss Chris Sorem one handedly built his studio with highly stylized acoustics and cool vibe that ends up earning his first Grammy. Three years later, irido comes to life as I'm researching how can follow his footsteps and make something truely unique that enhance experienece in recording studios. The idea of sonic crystal is owning to Eelco Grimm where he point me to uncharted territories in Acoustics, Than and Martijn's Bio Art class inspired me to incorporate ecology into the design.

Craftsmanship

Despite iterative progess bog down by real life constrains,wood Carving and 3D metal bending are used to add visual varieties, which is well received by our users. I'd like thank all the staff members at HKU and helpers to make this unresonable piece see the light of day.

Modularity

Lots of effort has put into the design to make it portable, irido comes with a map and an intuitive Carabiner mounting system. Assembling is as easy as LEGO / Ikea furniture, and it's primarily made out of reclaimed materials

Locally sourced reclaimed wood

B-roll

Bio

Following his BMus in Music Production at Los Angeles College of Music, Jeremy Leung attend the National Music Festival (NMF 2019) in Maryland with recording apprenticeship, he then worked with nationally recognized acts such as Los Lobos (Grammy Winner) , Vulfpeck , Scary Pockets and others as assistant engineer at Nest Recorders. During Covid he his interest emerges into tech art and tools making. He was a composer in a dance research project in collaboration with University of Hong Kong, later on as Audio Director for indie game Dessert Tank. He is currently pursuing MMus in Music Technology at Utrecht University of the Arts (Holland Scholarship awardee) and PG.Dip in Acoustics at Institute of Acoustics (U.Liverpool Acoustics Research Unit Lab). His interdisciplinary portfolio includes recent work on sonic branding for the Kaboom Festival (NL), Curator of Third Place, a Youtube channel promotes local artists with highly stylised production and builder of the sonic crystal irido that aims to enhance experience in creative spaces with multimodal stimulus. irido is picked up by AMS institute for their startup booster program and will be showcasing at Schiphol Airport.