Installation / Concept : Romain Tardy
Music Composition / Sound Direction : Squeaky Lobster a.k.a Loran Delforge
Software Development : Hand Coded
Production : Musée de L’Elysée de Lausanne

Fruit of a collaboration between visual artist Romain Tardy, composer Laurent Delforge a.k.a Squeaky Lobster and Creative Coder’s “Hand-Coded” crew, Future Ruins is a site-specific installation designed for the garden of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, which combines digital projection on the main facade of the museum with 12 illuminated aluminium structures in the shape of architectural elements from the building at scale 1:1, spread on the ground in a random order. The installation also features an 8-channel Surround soundtrack specifically composed in collaboration with the artist. Both musical and visual composition structures were developed in parallel within an intricate process of back and forth exchanges between the artists on the global narration.

Word of the Artist :

The garden has always been a space where actual and imaginary stories collide: a place of random or secret encounters, where fantasmagoria arises at night. The garden is also a gateway to multiple temporalities and living entities, where young and old humans interact with each other, under the look of centuries-old trees which remind us the quiet flow of time. A small mirror in which the world reflects.
Future Ruins has been re-installed in a desert 100 miles south Bejing [China] and in a huge concrete cathedral within the “Base Sous Marine” of Bordeaux [France] so far …
For each of these new installations, global design and compositional structures were re-thought to fit the specific new situation