The Cosmic Sensation event will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen or heard before! Music, lights and images will be triggered by cosmic rays which we detect on the spot. Every time our equipment detects a cosmic particle something in the music and images will change. The event will take place inside a huge dome, capable of holding up to 1000 people. And we promise: inside the dome you will experience something totally unique. You will be completely captured by the flow of music and images – everywhere you look and listen we will astound you with the most baffling effects modern technique can offer.

The inside of the dome is used as the largest, full surround, immersive projection system in the world. Once certain combinations of detectors are hit by a cosmic ray, we will see this in a large visualization.

If we used a static version, displaying the same pictures over and over again, this would be very boring. So we offer this huge canvas as a playground for graphic artists all over the world, who participate in an online contest. From April 1, 2010 artists can download an open source Blender gaming software framework that interacts with the cosmic ray detection system and projects 360^o onto the dome. The Blender international artists scene will show their creative vision on what the output of the detection system really means. All submissions will be shown during the week inside the dome. The videos give a real time interpretation of messages from the universe with direction and intensity of the cosmic rays. Snippets of text in the projection will give an elementary explanation of the underlying cosmic events.