Le Fabrique in Utrecht is a raw industrial space — concrete, steel, high ceilings. The kind of venue that eats light. When they asked us to bring something that would transform the main room without blocking sightlines, we proposed Kinetic LED Balloons: a 2-metre chrome sphere suspended from the ceiling, spinning slowly, pulsing with programmable color.
The technology
Kinetic Balloons are our most tech-driven act. Inside each sphere sits a motor, a wireless DMX receiver and a ring of addressable LED strips. We can program color sequences, sync them to a DJ's BPM feed, or run pre-choreographed light shows. The chrome surface acts as a mirror, scattering light across the entire room — one balloon effectively becomes a hundred reflections.
Installation day
We arrived at Le Fabrique at 08:00 for a 22:00 show. Rigging a spinning 2-metre sphere from an industrial ceiling involves more math than art: load calculations, motor torque, cable angles, backup safety lines. By 14:00 the sphere was hanging, by 16:00 we'd run the first light test. The moment we killed the house lights and the chrome balloon started spinning — shards of cyan and magenta sweeping across concrete walls — the venue crew stopped what they were doing and watched.
The result
That night the balloon became the centerpiece of the room. DJs played under it, the crowd danced around it, and every phone in the building pointed up at least once. Kinetic LED Balloons prove something we believe deeply: you don't need a massive production to transform a space. Sometimes one perfect object in the right spot changes everything.