2022, audiovisual installation
site-specific
music by Noémi Büchi (CH), collaboration with Michel Häberli (CH)
disco balls, moving head lights, haze, spatial mapping, custom software
_Pitch
Refracted Ballroom is an immersive audiovisual installation that transforms a space into an inverted dance floor, where the technical apparatus becomes the performing body. Composed of dozens of mirror balls and highly focused moving-head lights, the installation generates fleeting choreographies of light through reflections and refractions, creating moments that feel tangible yet elusive. Spatially mapped and controlled via a 3D engine, the lights interact with an original soundscape by Noémi Büchi, producing a generative system that entwines music, movement, and space.
Conceptualized and developed by Lukas Truniger in collaboration with Michel Häberli, the piece reflects on contemporary society’s reliance on physical and digital infrastructures, exploring how interactions are mediated through the properties of our machines. The result is a striking interplay between real and virtual, material and immaterial, where scenography, technology, and sound converge to create a living, responsive environment, pinpoints at this particular dependence.
_Operating principle
The lights and disco balls are spatially mapped and are controlled by a 3d engine, creating a sequence of different scenes. The music and spatial control influence each other in the real space, creating an entangled generative system between the real and the virtual.
_Exhibitions
08/2022 Lethargy Festival – Zürich (CH)
_Project credits
<> Concept, development, scenography: Lukas Truniger
<> Music: Noémi Büchi
<> Concept, scenography: Michel Häberli
_Support
+ Lethargy Festival
The piece can be shown indoors or adapted for outdoor spaces.
