Future Ruins

Romain Tardy · software and engineering · 2015 – 2018 · La Nuit des Images, Lausanne, then Signal Festival Prague

Our role Real-time software, engineering, light and LEDs.

A music and light performance on twelve handmade light structures, laid on the ground like the debris of an imaginary world, in front of a monumental projection. The challenge: keeping LED animation, video mapping and music perfectly in sync.

We supported Romain Tardy from the technical choice of his custom LED structures, made them controllable over Art-Net, and adapted our tools so he could edit the animation in real time, on site, during rehearsals.

Premiered at La Nuit des Images at the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, on 17 June 2015: the organisers expected 4,000 visitors, 11,000 came. Revived at Signal Festival Prague in 2018, on the church of Saints Cyril and Methodius.

Credits

Concept, design and animation Romain Tardy
Music Squeaky Lobster
Structures Julien Carretero
Software and electrical engineering Hand Coded: Maya Benaïnous, Cyril Laurier
Production La Nuit des Images

Press

“An immersive audiovisual experience powered by impressive projection mappings and 12 geometric, ground-located LED structures. Software development: Hand Coded.” Benoit Palop, The Creators Project (Vice), 2016