Every dull moment, Jonathan Zawada & Flume, Volume Festival, Art Gallery of New South Wales (2024)

Every Dull Moment is a large-scale, immersive audiovisual installation by artist Jonathan Zawada and musician Flume, created for the AGNSW Tank space. The work de-constructs and compresses the intensity of EDM festival aesthetics—strobing visuals, layered sound, and laser light—into short, ever-shifting sequences that loop unpredictably in a non-repeating rhythm.

For Every Dull Moment I developed a bespoke OpenFrameworks-based show control system to manage synchronised playback across 13 video projectors, 7 lasers,lighting and fog systems and multi-channel audio. The software generates new daily playlists with programmed constraints to avoid repetition of categories and sections, while maintaining randomised complexity. Video was mapped across three walls and synchronised with time-code to ensure precise alignment between audio, lighting, and laser cues.

More information about the work can be found here.

A great video of the work can be found here.