MGNTRN

Romain Tardy · software, engineering and robot · 2014 · PROYECTA, Puebla, Mexico

Our role Real-time software, engineering, robotics.

An immersive show built around a Ferris wheel, projection screens and 10-metre LED strips, all synchronised to the music: starfields, black holes and retro-futuristic spaceships on a fairground wheel.

We wrote the software that previews, animates and controls every light from a single timeline, in 3D, before anything was rigged. And we built a robot that turns the wheel’s levers to the beat of the music, driven from an iPad or from the timeline: the wheel itself becomes an instrument.

PROYECTA Festival, Puebla, Mexico, 9 to 11 May 2014.

Credits

Concept, design, animation and light control Romain Tardy
Software and engineering Hand Coded: Maya Benaïnous, Cyril Laurier
Music Squeaky Lobster
Production PROYECTA

Press

“A giant ferris wheel in Puebla, Mexico became starfields, black holes, and retro-futuristic spaceships.” The Creators Project (Vice), the best projection mapping of 2014
“A breathtaking 10-minute video presentation of MGNTRN. Software development & engineering: Maya Benaïnous, Cyril Laurier.” Benoit Palop, The Creators Project (Vice), 2014