HyperMuse · press kit

An audio-reactive holographic fan on a 4.3 m tower, and the browser-based show that drives it: a moon carrying words, geometry and weather on its dark side, with a poem screen beside it. Everything here was rendered from the pages in this repository — nothing is concept art.

Clips are viewing copies. Full-resolution masters are rebuilt from source with the commands at the foot of this page.

The installation

An audio-reactive holographic fan, rigged above a DJ booth or standing on its own tower. It ships with an equalizer that can be preconfigured for the night's music, and it will play VJ loops or 3D visuals supplied as mp4 - or run this show, live and reacting to the room.

Debuted at Burning Man PlayAlchemist, 2023.

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

Joel Dietz
@fractastical Telegram
+1 (628) 333-1011 WhatsApp

The HyperMuse booking sheet: specifications, requirements and cost

The sheet as sent: hypermuse-one-pager.pdf. It quotes one height and one price; the table above is the current answer where the two differ. The clip below is the rig itself, rendered to the same dimensions.

Motion

The installation, at nightthe fan on the 4.3 m tower over its 2.5 m base, dimensioned, with people for scale download · 369K

The effects library, end to endevery effect in the rotation, captioned, in one pass download · 1.0M

The moon, carousel programwhat goes to the first projector - a different effect each revolution download · 937K

The poem, three words a sidethe triangle turns a third a line so the words being written are always along the base download · 604K

Both projectors togetherthe pair as the room sees them, 402 x 226 cm each download · 505K

On a 180 cm holographic fanthe fan at room distance, with people for scale download · 351K

The fan up closeLED persistence, rolling shutter and blade artifacts as a camera sees them download · 747K

Art selectsthe cuts worth leading with, crossfaded, looping from and to black download · 810K

The film (excerpt)opening of the titled cut - the whole 2m 10s is in artifacts/art-film download · 586K

Stills

**The installation, at night**4.3 m to the top of the disc, over a 2.5 m square base

**The same rig under house lights**proof it is see-through - the wall behind carries straight on through the picture

**The word on the dark side**letter cubes cut from moon footage, pinned to the shadowed terrain

**Eye seal iris reveal**the disc opens to a clear hole onto the seal turning behind it

**Blood moon**a luminance-preserving eclipse grade, fadeable over a two-hour set

**Earth's shadow**the umbra crosses the disc, totality lit by refracted sunlight

**Orbiting vajras**dorje sprites on tilted lanes that pass behind the disc

**The star fisher**hooks a star, cups it, lets it go - and the freed stars make a heart

**Sonic sphere**the real normal modes of a vibrating sphere, driven by the room

**Synergetics fold**Fuller 100.41 - a triangle folding itself into a tetrahedron

**The poem, three words a side**nine words to a screen, one line to each side of the triangle

**The fan in a room**180 cm of spinning LED, black reading as transparent