Circadian dreams
Installation, Immersive Environment
2026
Circadian Dreams is an immersive audiovisual experience created by radugadesign in collaboration with composer Alexander Vasilenko for the “Architecture for People” festival at the Moscow Museum.
Inspired by psychoacoustic experiments of the 1970s-80s and the legendary Dreamachine by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, the project reinterprets these ideas through contemporary media technologies.
Combining meditation, psychoacoustics, and multimedia technologies, the project explores the effects of binaural rhythms and light stimulation on human perception. The 12-minute session is experienced with closed eyes and headphones: participants perceive projections through their eyelids while binaural rhythms gently guide them through three mental states – Δ, θ, and α – from deep relaxation to calm focus.
The installation was presented in a dedicated pavilion featuring a six-person seating structure, individual headphones, and a projection system designed to create an isolated environment for a collective meditative experience.
Credits
Creative directors
Ivan Nefedkin
Evgeny Shishkin
Producer
Ilya Eletsky
Sound design
Alexander Vasilenko
Account Manager
Alisa Aleinikova
Creative coder
Nadya Krokhina
Technical Director
Andrey Kubyshin
Technical support for the project
Valentin Savenko
Concept Artist
Sergey Voronov
Motion Design
Nadya Krokhina
Evgeny Shishkin
Case shooting & editing
Evgeny Shishkin
Anatoly Loptev
UI designer
Ilya Eletsky
Construction production
FourTika
Head of Marketing and External Communications Department
Anna Zagorodnikova
Art Director of External Communications
Ann SOD
PR-manager
Alice Melikyan
Content Manager
Guzel Suleymanova
SMM manager
Adele Timakova
Telegram Bot Developer
Egor Dolgov
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