It’s Going To Rain Tonight
An interactive installation made with TouchDesigner & Projection Mapping
-polyester fiberfill, projection mapping, sound, TouchDesigner, camera
“It’s Going To Rain Tonight” is an interactive installation featuring multiple polyester fiberfill clouds suspended across a window. The blinking gesture will trigger projection-mapped lightning and sound, creating an immersive environment that captures the tension of the ephemeral moments.
The project was inspired by my apartment window, I often saw clouds in front of me, the layering of the artificial clouds and real clouds creates an intriguing texture, and at night, the city lights and projection lights also echoed each other like a visual dialogue.
The interaction part was using the TouchDesigner mediapipe plug in. It’s fascinating to see small gestures are able to control outcomes on a much larger or smaller scale. Here I chose to use the blink because it’s almost imperceptible but quietly shifts the surrounding.
Future applications- At a larger scale, the installation can investigate how physical presence, subtle movements, and human interaction can generate and shape shared, poetic experiences, transforming intangible actions into light, sound, and atmosphere. At a smaller scale, the experience can be even more personal.
Side Note- This project shared the same name with my music ep project. During my time at Parsons, I created some mixed-media works around this same theme about tension, anticipation of the unknown. — so the project/EP are one part of a bigger ongoing narrative.
MediaPipe plugin developed by Torin Blankensmith and Dom Scott
A tutorial on the projection mapping workflow in TouchDesigner :D