Muon : Bloom

"We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves."
— Norbert Wiener

Premiering at Blink Cincinatti, October 2026
Video and audio show work-in-progress
Images are pre-visualisations

Muon : Bloom is a generative projection mapping and music installation that turns invisible particles from space into light and sound. 3 bespoke detectors capture muons — subatomic particles from the distant cosmos travelling at near the speed of light — transforming each detection into a fleeting audiovisual moment. Every response is triggered by a real particle, arrived from billions of years away.

The piece operates in two states. Between shows it runs as a fully generative ambient work, visuals and sound responding to detections in real time. At scheduled intervals it becomes a structured performance of approximately 20 minutes — a theatrical narrative tracing the journey of a muon from its violent origin in the distant cosmos to its arrival here, in this place, passing through the audience.
The score moves between newly composed music and generative systems driven by live data; processed instruments, spatial audio, and electronic textures that shift with each detection, from intimate drones to cascading rhythmic surges. Poetic text and voiceover carry the story while live detections continue to shape the experience. Every performance is different; the frequency, energy, and timing of detections can never be predicted.

The third work in a loose trilogy alongside Particle Shrine and Visitor, Muon : Bloom is the most ambitious of the three; scaled for city facades, designed to make audiences feel the ancient universe not as an abstract concept but as a physical presence, passing through them in real time.

Exhibitions

Blink Cincinnati, USA: October 2026 (premiere)

credits

Creative director, composer, producer: Christo Squier
Creative technologist, projection mapping: Thomas Blackburn
Fabrication & creative technologist: Chris Ball
Experimental particle physicist: Dr Teppei Katori