Les Méditations électroniques

Format

Immersive performance, 2 h, 80–150 participants

Role

Light design, video mapping and scenography

Device

11 video projectors, haze, live control

Status

In development

Guided meditation on techno music, reinvented as an immersive and collective performance — at the border between rave and mindfulness. Light is played live as an instrument: thousands of points projected into the haze become a living matter that surrounds the bodies.

Light as matter in the haze

The eleven projectors are used as light instruments rather than screens: halos, beams and fields of micro-points take shape in the haze and respond in real time to the guiding voice and to the music, through TouchDesigner and MadMapper. Participants’ hands end up sculpting the light.

Red, then the strobe

Four acts built as one progression: a warm, almost enveloping red that dissolves angles and faces; tunnels of light through the smoke; then the release of the rave, where the strobe cuts the bodies out of the dark — before silence returns.

• Concept, direction and voice — Alexandrine Comte. Live painting — Oilhack. Light design, video mapping and scenography — Alexandre Kolinka