Gallery: A Killer Light Show, Set Inside a Church

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    Portée/ is an interactive sound-and-light exhibit by Parisian multimedia collective Lab212.
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    The installation comprised of 16 electroluminescent wires strung from wall to floor...
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    ...that connect via cables to an electromechanical grand player piano.
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    As viewers walked through the deconsecrated Church Harscamp Notre Dame, also in Namur, Belgium, they can touch the wires.
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    The wires react to electric currents, so this triggered a series of pre-programmed melodies.
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    All together, the piece turned the church into one massive instrument.
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