Klanglicht 2025: Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole is a large, light-and-sound installation built for Klanglicht’s RAUSCH theme. A tower structure hosts choreographed lighting mapped to an original score, evolving from muted textures to saturated finales. The piece is designed for processional viewing audiences approach, dwell through the narrative, and exit with the resolution sequence. Visual motifs include brain-like pulses, noise fields, and color blooms that synchronize tightly to musical phrasing.

Created

2025

Development Period

1 Months

Industry

Exhibition

Team

Seymur Mammadov

Sopio Archilia

Arinze Clinton

Klanglicht 2025

Klanglicht is Graz’s annual festival of light and sound. The 2025 edition marked its 10-year anniversary with the theme RAUSCH, running October 24–27, 18:00–23:00 across multiple city locations and featuring international artists alongside student collaborations, including FH JOANNEUM’s “Vertigo.” It turns the city into an immersive canvas of color, music, and motion for four nights.

Concept: Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole is a poetic arc of creative process and life. Visitors begin in anxious greys and glitchy rhythms; whispered layers echo doubt and outside expectations. A pulsing “brain” motif rides breakthroughs and setbacks until noise resolves into harmony. Colors bloom, form settles, and the piece lands in clarity celebrating that hard-won moment when ideas finally click.

Challenge

Coordinating a 40-person class to design a tower. Additionally production in itself was hard, but it ran smoothly and everyone stayed aligned. With one week on site, six teams worked in parallel. Days were construction; nights were visual editing: beat-accurate keyframing, continuous side-angle readability checks, and rapid fixes. The final 48 hours were sleepless re-mapping, re-timing, polishing transitions while juggling safety, cabling, and sightlines. Intense, but the pipeline held and the piece landed as intended.

Results

Over four nights, Vertigo drew 25,000+ visitors—steady queues, phones up, and applause after each cycle. Guests lingered, recording and discussing the piece in a positive spirit. For the team, the pipeline proved itself under pressure, enabling quick tweaks without downtime and delivering a polished, festival-ready experience.

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Conclusion

Rabbit Hole distilled RAUSCH into an emotional arc—doubt to momentum to clarity—delivered at architectural scale. Coordinating a 40-person class, student-building the tower, and composing beat-tight visuals under a one-week window produced a cohesive, crowd-ready piece. With 25,000+ visitors over four nights, continuous applause, and positive chatter, the installation achieved its aim: shared catharsis through light, sound, and narrative timing.