son et lumiere

Lighthouses create son et lumiere, sound and light; it’s their job.

The Parc De Princes is a great crumbling concrete lump of a stadium, but it creates a wonderful sense of son et lumiere on these big midweek nights.

But, for all its son et lumière overload, at the exhibition’s centre is a genuinely remarkable collection of objects that tells a story noticeably longer than the exhibition’s sub-title – “Kraftwerk to Daft Punk” – suggests.

The trend dates back centuries: to 18th-century “son et lumière” shows and fireworks spectacles with wall-like sets in Europe, according to Erkki Huhtamo, a professor in the department of design media arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

People can just come and lie down, and take in this extraordinary 'son et lumiere' experience.