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The Banyan Tree
Sixth Sense Festival · Bangalore · 2026
A ten-metre tree built from the things we have taken into our identity — windows, mirrors, lights, smoke and lasers. Symmetry holds its posture, asymmetry gives it character, and no two angles read alike.
Lidar watched the room. What people did became sound, and sound became light, so the piece was played by the crowd and no two moments repeated. For the live shows it took timecode instead.
10 m tall5 months concept to opening3 weeks buildLidar → Ableton → TouchDesigner
A digital homage to Bengaluru’s legendary Dodda Alada Mara, it felt almost extraterrestrial, its aerial roots subtly reacting to the people moving around it.Rolling Stone India