Klanglicht 2025Klanglicht 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.

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.

I led our team’s piece, wrote the story behind it, and took part in building the tower with my classmates. I made the visuals for two sections, 0:30–1:42 and 2:13–3:10: finding the right images for each moment, animating them, and timing every change to the music so light and sound move as one.

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.

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.