SAM BRUKHMAN
case study / immersive light and sound / London

ECLIPSE by NONOTAK

A London immersive light and sound experience by NONOTAK, produced as a large-scale encounter with rhythm, perception, architecture, and the physical pressure of light.

Artistic question

How can light behave like sound, and sound behave like architecture? ECLIPSE places visitors inside a precise sensory system where rhythm, darkness, smoke, spatial audio, and moving beams turn perception into the main material.

Sam's role sits in the practical space where an artist's audiovisual world becomes a public experience: pacing the room, managing the encounter, and supporting the conditions that let the work feel exact, immersive, and alive.

Experience

ECLIPSE by NONOTAK room with horizontal light installation and visitor seating
01 / room

Light as environment.

The installation treats light as something physical: a field the visitor walks through, not an image they stand back from.

02 / rhythm

Sound as architecture.

Audio organizes the room's timing, shaping when the body moves, pauses, or gives itself over to the machine-like pulse.

Visitor silhouetted in front of a circular NONOTAK light installation
03 / visitor

The audience completes the image.

Human silhouettes become part of the composition, turning the installation into a sequence of moving bodies and geometric light.

Video excerpt

A short moving excerpt from the NONOTAK environment, showing the body caught between pulse, haze, and architectural light.

DUAL V1 / NONOTAK video excerpt

System

3site-specific installations
1k+square meters
6month London run
20,000+audiences reached

ECLIPSE moves between installation, performance, and nightlife-adjacent experience. Across its six-month London run, the installation occupied an unexpected Bermondsey site, making the raw architecture part of the visitor's movement through light, sound, smoke, and darkness.

Visitor standing beside ECLIPSE by NONOTAK wall of linear light
line field / human scale
Visitor silhouetted in front of horizontal light bars in ECLIPSE by NONOTAK
HIGHWAY / pulse architecture
ECLIPSE by NONOTAK installation with a circular black and white projection
optical architecture / threshold
Sam standing inside ECLIPSE by NONOTAK with diagonal beams of light
beam field / body scale

Media + recognition

Forbes

ECLIPSE Nonotak Review: A Light And Sound Experience In The Heart Of London

read review
Fused Magazine

French-Japanese duo NONOTAK unveils ECLIPSE

read feature
The Art Newspaper

Stellar eclipse: pioneering light and sound art duo NONOTAK prepare for first London solo show

read article

Project details

production
  • Immersive light and sound experience in London
  • Over 1,000 square meters and three site-specific installations
  • Six-month London run reaching 20,000+ audiences
credits
  • Created by NONOTAK: Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto
  • Presented by Lumen Studios
  • Produced with Sam Brukhman
sources
  • Forbes review
  • Fused Magazine feature
  • The Art Newspaper feature

Sources

Forbes review Fused Magazine The Art Newspaper Fever listing