8legs: Lighting the sound

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The world’s largest light installation shines on a small Australian town

Kari Kola unveils Lighting the Sound, a monumental light installation over King George Sound in Albany, WA.
The project uses about 750 LED floodlights and 15 red pencil-beam lights on towers up to 20m high.
The installation is described as the largest light installation ever staged on Earth and may be visible from space.
Form, the cultural organisation, presents Lighting the Sound.
The project connects landscapes to local histories and Indigenous stories, with two years of community consultation.
The spectacle aims to reveal what is already in the landscape, not impose something new, according to Kari Kola.
Opening night weather added dramatic effects as clouds scattered beams across the harbour.
Kola envisions the light as a bridge between land and cosmos, linking culture and science.
The installation may be visible from orbit, prompting discussions with astronauts for space photography.

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