One of the best aspects of our business is the diversity of projects we get to tackle. Some of the most enjoyable projects provide us with opportunities to exercise our creativity and technology skills, make new connections, and add to the extensive and diverse array of public art in Portland.

The Portland Winter Light Festival, a community-wide celebration of light, was all that and more. The event focused on illuminating the mid-winter darkness with light installations, projections, and performances by Oregon artists.

We challenged ourselves to build an interactive installation that would provide a visual and melodic experience that would grow as more people participated. Cross-discipline collaboration with other artists opened us up to new ideas as different worlds came together. Portland band little hexes created a collection of melodies that each depicted a color of light, while TwentyFour7 constructed the frame that held the interactive elements together. Light Chimes, an 18-foot suspended installation that reacted to passersby with an array of colored lights and melodies, allowed visitors to create a vibrant and harmonic experience that followed them by simply walking under any of the 19 nodes.