A guest logo sits on the moon's shadowed side the same way the word does - either as clean artwork or rebuilt out of moon footage so it looks like terrain. It is shot and checked at full size beforehand, so nobody discovers on stage that a wordmark is unreadable at forty feet.
Brand the moon
Send a logo and it goes on the shadowed side of the disc, riding the terrain as it turns. It is shot at full size and checked weeks before the night, so nobody finds out on stage that a mark is unreadable at forty feet.
If you are the one playing
The machine driving the fan opens its own microphone, so the geometry answers whatever the PA is actually doing. Bass swells the sphere, beats flare the orbiting pieces, loud passages shake the lettering. Nothing has to be routed through us and nothing needs timecode.
Any loop supplied as mp4 goes into the rotation beside the generated show, so the night can be your content, ours, or a cut of the two. The equalizer can be set for the kind of music before doors.
The programme is an hour of scheduled acts that loops for as long as the night does - a different effect each revolution, words, eclipses, orbits, geometry. The speed control stretches it, so half speed is a two-hour arc. It takes direction live if you want it, and needs nobody if you do not.
The same show drives projection - 402 x 226 cm is its native shape, two surfaces if you have them - and LED walls at 1920 x 1080 for a bar screen or 1872 x 1296 for a DJ screen. The poem screen above is what the second projector carries.
What arrives
- The fan itself, 180 cm of spinning LED
- A box-truss tower and its 2.5 m square ground frame
- The show, configured for your night, with your mark already tested on it
What the room provides
- 2.5 m square of floor, and the height to use it
- A ladder
- A laptop with an HDMI port, if you would rather run it yourself
- Two people and 2.5 hours to build it, one hour to strike it
The numbers
| Height | 4.3 m to the top of the disc, adjustable |
|---|---|
| Footprint | 2.5 m square ground frame |
| Install | 2 people, 2.5 hours |
| Breakdown | 2 people, 1 hour |
| Needs | a ladder, and a laptop with an HDMI port |
| Cost | negotiable - 750 EUR is the usual single-day install |
See more of it
- Press kit Eleven clips and fourteen stills, all downloadable — including the rig at night, the fan up close, and an hour of the show cut to a reel
- Hyperstition · moon halo Two full-length renders, playing in the page
- How it is built The README: every mode, every parameter, and how to run it yourself
- Source on GitHub github.com/fractastical/hypermuse
Book it
4.3 m to the top of the disc, adjustable · 2.5 m square base · two people and 2.5 hours to build · cost negotiable, 750 EUR is the usual single-day install
Joel Dietz · @fractastical on Telegram · +1 (628) 333-1011 on WhatsApp