Tech.007 · Spatial Production

Spatial Production

Events & Installation.

A room that performs every time someone walks in.

A live install is the moment all eight stacks have to cooperate without bugs. Projectors throw warped images onto curved surfaces. Sensors track where people are. Audio fills the space, latency-locked to whatever's happening on screen. A central show-control program keeps the whole orchestra in time.

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Resolution

4K + blend

Sync

< 16 ms

Uptime

7×12 redundant

SYSEVENT.MAP

NET3 PROJ · DMX · SYNC

STATESHOW

PROJ 3
RES 4K
BUS ART-NET

Live · Show

DMX

01 · The thirty-second version

Every surface is a screen, every prop a button.

An immersive install dissolves the line between the venue and the content. Projection mapping distorts a video image so that when it lands on an irregular surface — a curved wall, a sculpted prop, a building façade — it looks geometrically perfect from the audience's viewpoint. Sensor tracking feeds the live state of the room (where people are, what they touched, how loud the cheer was) into the show.

The brain is show-control software. Cues fire in sequence: lights dim, audio swells, projection content steps to the next clip, a robotic prop rotates. Each cue arrives within a frame of the others — because if they don't, the audience sees the seams and the magic snaps. We rehearse, we instrument, we have a redundant backup machine in the rack.

The hardest moment is opening night. "It worked yesterday" is not a defense. We design for the failure modes that museums actually see — yanked cables, drunk visitors, dust in the lens, a projector overheating in hour three. Quiet recovery beats spectacular failure.

◉ EVENT.RIG

02 · The show-control flow

Five layers, one orchestra.

Each layer has its own software, but they all listen to the same conductor.

Stage

Physical layout: projectors, screens, props, sensors, lighting, audio. Surveyed and CAD'd before anything ships.

Map

Projection mapping software warps each output to fit its surface. Per-projector calibration, edge-blending across overlaps.

Sync

A master clock (genlock or PTP) keeps every render machine, audio rig and lighting controller in lockstep within a single frame.

Trigger

Show-control cue list fires events: time-based, sensor-based, operator-based. OSC, DMX, MIDI, MQTT all mixed in.

Run

Show is live. Operator watches dashboards, ready to manually fire fallback cues. Telemetry logs every event for post-show review.

03 · The toolkit

Software, hardware, protocols.

A live install is a stack of stacks. Here's what we reach for.

Mapping

MadMapper

The standard for fixed-installation projection mapping. Per-surface mesh warping, edge-blending, video playback.

Resolume · Heavy M · Modulo

Generative

TouchDesigner

Node-based real-time visual programming. Anything custom — sensor-driven, generative, AI — happens here.

Notch · Cables · Hydra

Show-control

QLab

Cue-based playback for theatre and museum installs. Audio, video, OSC, MIDI cues. Mac-native.

Disguise · Watchout · Pharos

Lighting

DMX · Art-Net

The standard protocols for theatrical and architectural lighting. 512 channels per universe, IP-routed.

sACN · DALI · KNX

Tracking · Depth

Kinect · Orbbec

Body skeleton tracking without privacy-sensitive RGB. Drives sensor-aware audience-responsive content.

Azure Kinect · Femto · Stereolabs

Tracking · Range

LiDAR

2D and 3D laser scanning. Detects presence and motion across large zones with no false positives from light.

RPLidar · Ouster · Velodyne

Audio

Dante · AVB

IP-based audio routing. Multichannel, sample-accurate sync, replaces analog patchbays.

Q-Sys · Symetrix · Soundscape

Hardware

Brompton · Pixera

LED processors and media servers. The "racks" that drive megapixel content to large LED walls and projection arrays.

Disguise gx · Hippotizer

04 · In the wild

Where we've shipped installs.

Brand activation

Projection-mapped centerpieces

Sculpted forms with content mapped onto every face — narrative driven, looped seamlessly, shifted on visitor presence. Audience walks around it; the story rotates with them. Two projectors blended on overlap.

MadMapperTouchDesignerEdge-blend

Exhibit · Sensor-aware

Sensor-driven walkthroughs

A visitor wanders through a multi-room exhibit. LiDAR detects which zone they're in. Audio + lighting + projection content shift smoothly to the next chapter — non-linear, but always in scene.

RPLidarQLabArt-Net

Retail · Window

Reactive shop windows

A retail window that wakes up when a passerby stops to look. Camera detects gaze, content swaps to a personalized greeting. Sleeps when the sidewalk is empty. Saves projector hours, doubles dwell time.

YOLOPi 5Resolume

Live · Audience-driven

Phone-driven stage lighting

During a live event, audience phones (over WebSocket) became the lighting controllers. A custom Node bridge routed taps and tilts to a DMX universe. The room reacted to the crowd — literally.

WebSocketDMX · Art-NetNode

04.5 · Recent installs

Spaces we've taken over.

Drop replacement images as installs go live. Each card has a slot for a 4:3 install photo and a tagged spec line.

◬ PLACEHOLDER EV.001 · CENTERPIECE · 2 PROJ

SAMPLE.001

Projection-mapped centerpiece

A sculpted brand form with content mapped onto every face — story rotates with the audience as they walk around. Two projectors edge-blended on overlap.

MadMapperEdge-blend4K

◯ PLACEHOLDER EV.002 · WALKTHROUGH · LIDAR

SAMPLE.002

Sensor-driven walkthrough

Multi-room exhibit with LiDAR detecting which zone the visitor is in. Audio + lighting + projection content shift smoothly to the next chapter — non-linear, always in scene.

RPLidarQLabArt-Net

▢ PLACEHOLDER EV.003 · WINDOW · REACTIVE

SAMPLE.003

Reactive shop window

Retail window that wakes up when a passerby stops to look. Camera detects gaze, content swaps to a personalized greeting. Sleeps when the sidewalk is empty.

YOLOPi 5Resolume

◈ PLACEHOLDER EV.004 · STAGE · PHONE-DRIVEN

SAMPLE.004

Phone-driven stage lighting

During a live event, audience phones (over WebSocket) became the lighting controllers. A custom Node bridge routed taps and tilts to a DMX universe.

WebSocketDMXNode

▤ PLACEHOLDER EV.005 · SHOW-RACK · QLAB

SAMPLE.005

Show-control rack

The "racks" in the back room — the show-control PC, redundant backup, audio interface, network switch, DMX gateway. The boring bits that make the front-of-house magic possible.

QLabMac miniBackup

⛯ PLACEHOLDER EV.006 · LOAD-IN · OPENING

SAMPLE.006

Opening night, 7:01 PM

Load-in process photo — the 48 hours of focusing projectors, calibrating sensors, rehearsing cues, and quietly testing the recovery script before the doors open.

CalibrationRehearsalBackup tested

05 · The other seven

Adjacent stacks.

Artificial Intelligence

Got a venue and a date?

Tell us the room. We'll build the show.

Brand activation, museum exhibit, retail window, live event — different stages, different stacks. We do the survey, the design, the build, and the load-in. Quote within a business day.

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