The immersive kinetic light work 'Skalar' relies on Pointe de Robe robotics

Ninety robotics of this model are used for its staging., along with 65 double sided mirrors suspended in 195 modified WhiteVoid engines.

Artist and lighting designer Christopher Bauder, together with composer and music producer David Letellier (Kangding Ray) have brought their immersive work of kinetic light and sound art Scalar to Mexico City, where they have also performed seven live shows at the Frontón venue in this city, located next to the Republic Square.

A fundamental part of the staging of this work are ninety Pointe de Robe, along with 65 double sided mirrors, each with a perimeter ring of 180 addressable and suspended pixels in 195 engines WhiteVoid modified.

Although the premiere of Scalar took place last year in Berlin with great success, Bauder and Letellier's goal was to take the work to other parts of the world, and Frontón México provided the facilities and spatial parameters similar to the show's lighting requirements., etc; although being a black box space was a challenge to create the immersive experience.

For this reason, while essentially the same show was being performed, Part of the soundscape and lighting signals for Frontón México were also recreated. Remembering the wheel of emotions developed by Professor Robert Plutchik, the public experiences eight primary emotions (anticipation, ira, dislike, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise and confidence) during the live show Scalar (the version in loop that occurred every day evoked six primary emotions).

Martin Kuhn, responsible for the production of the project in Mexico and lighting designer, together with the promoter Héctor Mijangos, were fundamental to represent Scalar for five weeks in this place. “This work is totally unique and avant-garde in Mexico, and we have loved being part of something so fresh, innovative and different”, Mijangos has pointed out.

Lighting installation was coordinated with the local supplier Led Project, which supplied the Pointe de Robe luminaires, with the support of the manufacturer's international team (which also provided support for the original installation in Berlin) y Showco, your distributor in this country.

The WhiteVoid design and mirrors Kinetic Lights, KLC lathes and control (also designed by Christopher Bauder) They were brought from Germany, while a local supplier took care of the rigging and the six-point sound system L-Acoustics, specified and designed by Letellier.

The turnstiles and mirrors were mounted on the ceiling of the space (using the trusses and rigging of the Frontón México facilities), with the Pointes located around on three sides. They mounted 75 Pointe units in the stands, with fifteen more on three totem-like trusses in the center of the space.

This dynamic setup allowed Christopher Bauder to mix and bend the lighting in several different directions.. Each mirror was controlled by three lathes, with up to 7 meters of vertical movement, and evenly on the axes X–Y–Z, so that its kinetics are three-dimensional and fluid.

The movement of the mirrors is done through Art-Net, with Kinetic Lights' proprietary KLC software platform, the entire entire system is connected in a network. Scalar has been a great success in Mexico that they have enjoyed more than 40.000 personas. The work will return to Europe again, specifically of the 10 from January to 5 February 2020 in Amsterdam, and recinto industrial Gashouder.