The Lighting of the Quads and the annual pop-up ice rink bring extra sparkle to the Homewood campus during the darkness of late fall and winter, but this year both events provided some extra wattage, thanks to Persephone: Four Seasons, a fully interactive light and sound organ created by Johns Hopkins University staff and students.
The first-ever collaboration between the Digital Media Center and the Makerspace, Persephone is the result of a semester-long shared project led by Jason Charney, a composer, sound artist, and multimedia specialist for the DMC, and Luke Ikard, a multidisciplinary visual artist and…