The Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World ’s Fair was design by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis asa “ container ” for a sound and light showhighlighting the society ’s technology . The walls were grace with 350 loudspeakers that broadcast avant - garde musician Edgar Varese ’s Poeme Electronique along three “ road ” through the construction , while images and coloration were projected on the walls . Over two million the great unwashed see the Philips Pavilion , but when the fair closed , it was pulverize . TheVirtual Electronic Poemproject used original plan and a stereo recording of Varese ’s score to create a practical realism facsimile of the Poeme Electronique . I ’d have intercourse to see it in the immersive helmet , but click through for a 2 - five hundred sample .
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