Paysage Sonore

Mouawad + Laurier · 2022 – 2024 · Grand Palais Éphémère Paris, Noor Riyadh, Baghdad

Our role Concept, sound, generative visuals, real-time software.

An augmented-reality musical performance, generated in real time by the sounds of everyone present. A hypnotic, contemplative harmony links the real and the virtual, while particles of light respond to the composition, across landscapes inspired by nature. Every visitor becomes, without knowing it, a composer of the collective experience.

We designed the work and its engine: the analysis of the room’s noise, the interactive music that flows from it and the augmented-reality canvas of particles that ripples to the rhythm of the audience. A light piece that fits a 10,000 m² hall as easily as a consulate.

Presented at Palais Augmenté 2, the first festival dedicated to augmented reality, at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, then at Noor Riyadh and at the French consulate in Baghdad, in 2022. The project continues with the Villa Al Qamar residency of the Institut Français du Liban, laureate 2024, on the soundscapes of Lebanon.

To programme this artwork: mouawadlaurier.com