Last weekend, at this year’s edition of Rave Rebels, Belgium’s largest indoor rave, multimedia studio SILA SVETA Music took on the creation of the main stage and unveiled a large-scale audiovisual installation titled Deus Ex Machina.

Known for its monumental productions and all-night experiences, Rave Rebels transforms Brussels’ ING Arena into a rave temple for 15,000 spectators. For SILA SVETA Music, this collaboration was an opportunity to bring their signature blend of technology, storytelling, and visual impact to the European electronic music scene.

Continuing to explore the theme of deconstruction, SILA SVETA Music draws on its past experiments with fragmented forms, visual chaos, and immersive stage design—this time scaling the concept up nearly 18 times to fit the massive arena space in Brussels. The result is Deus Ex Machina—a living supercomputer filled with shattered screens and hanging wires, visualizing a state of digital disintegration. As soon as the music begins, the supercomputer will awaken from its slumber—its chaotic aesthetic coming to life with dynamic generative content and light.

Deus Ex Machina tells the story of a world built on the ruins of a once highly advanced civilization. The installation combines generative graphics, thermal camera input, and live DJ-set streams enhanced with real-time effects—each moment a techno-epic of collapse and rebirth.

Reflecting this narrative in physical form, the stage design reimagines techno aesthetics through fragmentation, scale, and sculptural composition. The structure is built from massive metal trusses, serving as the foundation for layered sculptural forms. LED modules and lighting fixtures are mounted onto these truss-based shapes in a deliberately irregular, open arrangement.

The LED meshes, fragmented and pierced with beams of light, create depth and volume through intentionally left gaps. These voids pulse with contrast and distortion—bursts of light slicing through the chaos, evoking the image of a machine glitched and torn apart mid-beat. Visually, the structure echoes the venue’s industrial architecture, blending into a unified spatial narrative. The interplay of broken surfaces and searing light turns the stage into a controlled explosion—a physical expression of digital deconstruction.

Rave Rebels is a significant platform, and creating the main stage for this edition was an important step for us. With 6,300 square meters of space to work with, we focused on scaling up the structures rather than multiplying them. We built large suspended forms that combine LED and lighting in a way that feels sculptural and raw—aligned with the chaotic visual language we’ve been developing.

Ekaterina Konovalova, creative director at SILA SVETA Music

For the Rave Rebels audience, the installation introduced a new way of experiencing space—more immersive, sculptural, and deliberately disordered. For SILA SVETA Music, it was another step in evolving their approach to stage design. The installation demonstrated how a stage can go beyond its functional role to become a sculptural centerpiece—one that shapes the atmosphere of the entire event while standing as a work of its own.

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