During this year’s The Night of Museums, join us for the exciting experience of the Sound Gallery. The NFM space will be filled with various concerts, mini-concerts, and installations located in unusual corners of the venue – including those not normally accessible to you.

Tobaro is the doctoral thesis of Krzysztof Rau, a graduate of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, and the master’s thesis of Dominika Siemińska, a graduate of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. It is a work designed for VR.

Using controllers, we navigate Tobaro as a character whose vision is damaged by an explosion that devastates an entire city. We enter the app as protagonists exploring rooms in a house, experiencing a one-of-a-kind, abstract musical fabric (short pieces) interwoven throughout its various locations. Remaining in one place for a period of time, we experience sudden visions of the past in the form of dialogue. Through these visions, we learn who the people in the house were, where they went, and what happened to them. We can learn everything about this place, but we can also unknowingly prevent or contribute to our protagonist’s death. There are six rooms in the building, and the action that takes place in the dialogues is non-chronological and shredded in such a way that the full picture of what exactly happened is clear after analysing all the conversations heard.

The VR app used in the Tobaro project contains intense visual stimuli, including flashing lights and rapidly changing images. If you have been diagnosed with epilepsy or visual hypersensitivity, we advise you not to use it. Should you develop disturbing symptoms while using the app, please stop using it immediately and notify a service person. Please use the app with caution if you are prone to motion sickness or similar reactions.