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. Debuted at Burning Man PlayAlchemist, 2023.
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
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.
A wordmark, drawn as suppliedHeavy and wide-tracked, because fine type does not survive the size the panel gives itA monogram, glowing off the terrainBold geometry reads from the back of a room, and holds while the disc turns under it
If you are the one playing
Your mark on it, not ours
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.
It listens to the room, not to our laptop
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.
It will play your visuals
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.
It runs the set without a VJ
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 fan is not the only output
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 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.
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
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.
Motion
Everything below 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, at nightthe fan on the 4.3 m tower over its 2.5 m base, dimensioned, with people for scaledownload · 384KThe effects library, end to endevery effect in the rotation, captioned, in one passdownload · 1.0MThe moon, carousel programwhat goes to the first projector - a different effect each revolutiondownload · 672KThe poem, three words a sidethe triangle turns a third a line so the words being written are always along the basedownload · 604KThe poem, the whole of ittrinitypoem.txt end to end, 82 screens, one pass of the turning triangledownload · 23.9MBoth projectors togetherthe pair as the room sees them, 402 x 226 cm eachdownload · 476KOn a 180 cm holographic fanthe fan at room distance, with people for scaledownload · 359KThe fan up closeLED persistence, rolling shutter and blade artifacts as a camera sees themdownload · 814KDancing muminsthree little trolls dancing across the shadowed terrain, painted solid on the surfacedownload · 159KArt selectsthe cuts worth leading with, crossfaded, looping from and to blackdownload · 810KThe film (excerpt)opening of the titled cut - the whole 2m 10s is in artifacts/art-filmdownload · 586K
Stills
The installation, at night4.3 m to the top of the disc, over a 2.5 m square baseThe same rig under house lightsproof it is see-through - the wall behind carries straight on through the pictureThe word on the dark sideletter cubes cut from moon footage, pinned to the shadowed terrainEye seal iris revealthe disc opens to a clear hole onto the seal turning behind itBlood moona luminance-preserving eclipse grade, fadeable over a two-hour setEarth's shadowthe umbra crosses the disc, totality lit by refracted sunlightOrbiting vajrasdorje sprites on tilted lanes that pass behind the discDancing muminsa troupe of little trolls dancing across the shadowed terrainThe star fisherhooks a star, cups it, lets it go - and the freed stars make a heartSonic spherethe real normal modes of a vibrating sphere, driven by the roomSynergetics foldFuller 100.41 - a triangle folding itself into a tetrahedronThe poem, three words a sidenine words to a screen, one line to each side of the triangleThe fan in a room180 cm of spinning LED, black reading as transparentThe fan up closepersistence of vision, sampled the way the blade sweeps it
