The collaboration between Ensemble Cairn and composer Lucas Fagin began in 2015 when, as part of Radio France's Alla Breve commissions, he composed Psychedelic. Written for seven musicians, Lucas Fagin's music bridges the gap between so-called "contemporary" and "current" music, drawing inspiration from three highly referenced sources: Ligeti (Kammerkonzert), Pink Floyd (On the Run, from the album Dark Side of the Moon), and a hypnotic painting by Victor Vasarely. The shared desire to delve deeper into this work led Lucas Fagin to propose creating an extended form over time and space, with the collaboration of audiovisual artist Boris Labbé: Glass House.

The meeting of these two artists, who share a taste for distortions, optical illusions, and geometric eccentricities, is intended to be a radical undertaking. Drawing inspiration from the unsettling world of science fiction, their work seeks to alter perception and disorient the senses through a composition that is both visual and sonic, simultaneously hypnotic and psychedelic. Their ambition is to create a new universe, a "Psi-fi" that radiates in multi-dimensions.

Glass House draws inspiration from 20th-century speculative and never made fiction by Sergei Eisenstein's, and the new realities of contemporary societies: the proliferation of communication networks, transparency and data exchanges, the society of control and surveillance, urban utopias, hyper-connectivity, and alienation. Here, the utopias of the early 20th century have transformed into dystopias. In the background of Glass House, the figures of Yevgeny Zamyatin (We), George Orwell (1984) and Byung-Chul Han (The Society of Transparency) also emerge.