A 14,000-LED centrepiece for a Viennese nightclub.
Custom light installation, engineered in-house.
In 2021, Bettel Alm — a Viennese clubbing institution — asked us to redesign their interior. We set out to devise not only new wall-art for the main club but a dedicated side club, ElektroSau, aimed at a more technophile audience. The whole thing is anchored by a single, ambitious centrepiece: a fully custom 7 × 2,000 LED matrix controlled live from the DJ booth.
Concept
We devised an eye-catching colour scheme for the space and proposed a pixel-matrix light installation as the centrepiece — coherent with the club’s identity, DJ-friendly, and simple enough to operate that it never becomes the bottleneck in a set.
Build
The LED matrix was custom designed, planned and built entirely by our team in-house. Drawing on earlier work with controllable LEDs, we prototyped a pixelated display, presented it to the client, then went into full planning.
To make construction tractable we designed custom PCBs to mount the LED strips, a framing system, grid dividers and a dedicated control unit that accepts standardised inputs over the ArtNet protocol.
Install
Because some corners and angles were genuinely tricky, the frame was built and test-fitted on site. The LEDs and grid were then added and tested back in our office. Thanks to the extensive planning, the actual install was a one-day job.
Throughout, we kept the system easy to service and repair — modular panels, accessible control electronics — while still robust enough to survive the nightly reality of a club.