1024 architecture

The cube that turned live performance into luminous architecture

In December 2007, at the Transmusicales in Rennes, a six-meter cubic scaffold began to transform to the rhythm of Etienne de Crécy. That Square Cube, conceived for the Beats and Cubes live show, synchronized projection and music in real time and kicked off a world tour that lasted nearly seven years. The gesture defined 1024 architecture: not to illustrate the track, but to turn geometry, light, and code into part of the concert.

Proprietary software so light can play with the DJ

The device required custom-made tools. From those programs, MadMapper was born in 2011, developed with GarageCube and today an international reference for video, LED, and laser mapping, with the studio leading from Paris. The same logic fueled club and festival scenographies: Boom-Box, the light synthesizer VTLZR for Vitalic's Rave Age live show, and kinetic installations like Walking Cube. The language is deliberately geometric: the pixel is square, and the cube—from Square Cube to Tesseract, Core, or Volume—functions as a recurring motif.

Core, PULSE, and electronics turned into volume

In 2014, the duo expanded with Nico Merlin, architect, composer, and director, responsible for much of the sound design for pieces like Écrin, Volume, Space Beat, and Scanline, and co-star of generative audiovisual live shows like 2048 A.D. and Space XY. In 2019, Core, a 3x3x3 meter cube with 81 LED bars created with Laurent Garnier for the ELECTRO exhibition at the Philharmonie de Paris, translated six hours of techno history—from Detroit to the European rave—into a volume of light, with the original track Reboot. The piece traveled to the Venice Music Biennale, the Design Museum in London, Vilnius, Strasbourg, Metz, Vitoria, and Montpellier. In 2024, the Gaîté Lyrique presented PULSE, their largest monographic exhibition, featuring Space Beat, Puppet—developed with Vitalic—and an atmosphere that adopts club codes.

Public geometry, lasers, and the international scene

Based in Paris, the studio intervenes in both nightlife and public space: Écrin at the Lyon Festival of Lights, the permanent Vortex in Darwin (Bordeaux), Phorest, Lightwave for the Venice Biennale, MUTEK, Mapping Festival, GLOW Eindhoven, Signal, Ososphère, or Nuit Blanche. They release soundtracks of their installations—Scanline, Écrin, Lightwave, Dunes, Space XY, Lightfield—on streaming platforms, labeled as electronic and techno. They remain on the frontier between architecture, visual arts, and electronic music, with light treated as a building material and sound as a structure.