Installation for @baarish.anexperience (Episode One) - Echoes Before Rain
In a city waiting for the monsoon, we constructed a tiny little storm.

This immersive installation - created for Baarish, an episodic one-day seasonal festival - transformed a transitional space, a corridor, into a sensorial passage between weather, memory, and presence. A narrow walkway within Travancore Palace was reimagined as a living organism: responsive, ephemeral, awake.

At its core were generative visuals, rippling, fluid, and expansive, invoking “Baarish/Rains” not only as an aesthetic but as a state of being. These projections did not illustrate rain; they embodied it. Their movement was slow, swelling, hypnotic - like clouds gathering before a downpour.

Sensor-based audio and reactive lighting mapped the body’s movement through space. Each step, pause, or shift in direction triggered shifts in sound and bursts of light and Visuals. The installation offered no single perspective - it demanded participation. In this choreographed ecology, the audience was not passive - they were the rainmakers.

Curated as part of Baarish, this installation is a beginning.
An invitation to make festivals that move like weather: episodic, emotional, and alive.

Baarish Festival: Echoes Before Rain Installation Conceptualised and Created by W.I.P Labs
Visuals: Hasan / @curiouswala
Sensor Design: @abhishekkapahi
Sound: @anirban5150
Executive Producers: @kirti5sharma and @anantraina
Festival curated by @excurators and Co-produced by @excurators and @indiaculturalhub
Presented at Travancore House, Delhi
June 21 · World Music Day