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Somnium Navigatio is a 40 minute audiovisual experimentation through a fantastic lunar journey, based on Johannes Kepler’s “Somnium”, prepared for fullDome proyection format with 5.1 spatialized surround sound.
All visuals coded using Processing.
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“The island of Levania is located fifty thousand German miles high up in the air. The journey to and from this island from our Earth is very seldom open but when it is accessible, its easy for our people. However, the transportation of men, joined as it is to the greatest danger of life, is most difficult.”
“Whatever springs from the land or walks upon the land is of a monstrous size. Increases in size are very rapid. Life is of short duration because all living things grow to such an enormous bodily mass. The Privolvans have no fixed dwelling place. In the space of a single day, they traverse the whole of their world in hordes, following the receding waters either on legs that are longer than those of our camels, on wings, or in boats. If a delay of very many days is necessary, they crawl through the caves according to each one's nature.”
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Johannes Kepler, in his writing "Somnium", describes a fantastic journey towards Levania, a terrestrial moon existing in a parallel dimension, within spiritual dreams, where creatures of the most phantasmagorical science fiction live.
At the same time, he merges his astronomical studies, as fundamental as his drawings of stellar models and orbital diagrams.
What would have been the visualizations if Kepler had had more advanced graphic and sound technology?
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Idea and Concept:
Agustin Ramos Anzorena
Julia Suero (Julia's SoundCloud)
Visual Development and Software Programming:
Agustin Ramos Anzorena
Sound Design and Immersive Spatialization:
Julia Suero
Commissioned by:
Espace Mèndes-France Planetarium
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