A permanent feature at The Museum of Liverpool, The Beatles Show is an exhibition telling the story of the group in Liverpool – the birthplace of a musical and cultural revolution that swept the world.

Focusing on the city and its unique influence on popular culture, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the sights and sounds that shaped the John, Paul, George and Ringo's music.

As part of the exhibition, Illustrious was commissioned to 3D spatialise content for the 15 minute immersive audio and visual experience, collaborating with production company Hurricane Films.

Performed live in Pandora’s Playground at the Latitude Festival, this unique collaboration between La Prima Donna and Illustrious Company saw a new live performance of dance and 3D Sound.

‘La Prima Donna’ was an audio-visual performance installation by Hellcat Productions, which utilised characters from Caryl Churchill’s 1982 play ‘Top Girls’. Combining choreographed dance, performative gender and period-shifting costume the performance explored contorted ideals of feminine beauty.

Featuring live DJing, the sound was provided by Illustrious using 3D surround sound technology. 

A collaboration between Cybersonica, Future of Sound, Lighthouse and Illustrious Company, AV Lab was a week long residential  creative & practical workshop exploring sound, moving image, art and technology.

Exploring the emerging field of Digital Live Art, (re)Actor3 was an international forum that focused on the intersection of live art, computing and human-computer interaction, with Illustrious providing 3D sound technology and consultancy for the event.

The forum was also co-located with one of Europe’s largest and longest running HCI conferences on human-computer interaction, providing a unique opportunity to reach the top decision makers in the field.

A multi-media, audio-visual spectacular, Future of Sound at Future Sonic was conceived by Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company and combined a hands-on demo with a unique 3D clubbing experience.

A stuning showcase of “future music”, the event combined 3D DJ and VJ sets as well as live music with performances from artists such as the Modified Toy Orchestra, The Sancho Plan, Luciana Haill, Tal Rosner and Squidsoup.

Held as part of the Enter_Unknown Territories series of events, Cybersonica 3D Sampler was an evening of live electronic performances, DJs, VJs and short film screenings with 3D sound provided by Illustrious. 

Curated by Martyn Ware of Illustrious in collaboration with Cybersonica, the event was an ambitious mix of progressive electronic music, innovative audiovisualisation, screenings of musical shorts and interactive sonic art, featuring performances from Eclectic Method, Brian Duffy’s Modified Toy Orchestra, The Sancho Plan, and ALT*CTRL amongst others.

An exhibition of five artists and designers whose work with glass, lighting, sound, mixed media and animation all focused on the elusive qualities of light in their practice, Trip the Light Fantastic featured a three-dimensional composition by Martyn Ware of Illustrious.

Working in collaboration with lighting designer Pip Rhodes, Ware created a three-dimensional synaesthetic soundscape to accompany a room immersed in pure monochromatic colour, that swept through the spectrum over a one hour period.

For the project, multiple digital projectors were used to cast light upon a glass sculpture specially designed by Illustrious and created by the glass artists from the museum itself.

Organised to mark the unveiling of the Bill Brown Cutlery Collection, ‘Shine’ saw Illustrious compose a three dimensional soundscape using field recordings taken in the metalwork factories of Sheffield as source material.

Working in collaboration, Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke of Illustrious Company spent two days in the factories recording the sounds of machinery hammering, grinding, and buffing, before mixing them with various other sounds and oral narratives of people from the light metal industry, to create a unique composition.

Installed as part of Atlantic Edge at the Cliffs of Mother Exhibition Centre, The Ledge was an interactive exhibit featuring immersive three dimensional sound from Illustrious.

Housed at the centre of the underground building, Atlantic Edge is a huge domed cave containing images, exhibits, displays & experiences exploring different elements of the mighty Cliffs of Moher.

Connected to the central dome of the exhibition via a winding tunnel that evokes the many caves of the area, The Ledge is a a virtual reality cliff face adventure.

Installed in the Will Allsop multimedia interactive building known as The Public, Sound Corridor was an immersive audio piece created by Surround. AV with 3D sound consultancy provided by Illustrious.

The piece was installed in the walkway area of the building using the Sonic Image 16 technology as used at the Illustrious studio.

A collaborative work between Anna Hill, Iarla O’Lionaird, Jason Bruges and Martyn Ware of Illustrious, Auroral Synapse was a a filmic soundscape installation that used magnetic frequencies from the Aurora Borealis and the human voice to interact with the senses.

Using recordings made by Hill on a recent visit to Finland, the soundscape was an amalgamation of O’Lionard’s voice, ambient sounds, local musicians and singers, and interviews with scientists studying the geo-physics of the aurora borealis, edited together into one cohesive composition by Jason...
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The Adventures Of Sky – The Reluctant Hero is an interactive one-person show. It is written and performed by Nikky Norton Shafau and directed by The Core’s Creative Director Chris Sudworth.

"Sky has not slept a wink for six whole months and appears to have lost everything. Having left her home town to begin a new life in the city, her success and her senses break down. 3am: another sleepless night. A sound from deep without. The Door opens. Sky steps outside… but the world doesn’t look, feel or sound the same as it used to. Nightmares, dreams and reality blur as Sky searches for heroic capabilities to find her way back ‘home’."

Nikky Norton

Martyn created an immersive audio experience that combines the physicality of the sound wave with the reception of outstanding new music.

Martyn worked with collaborators Darkstar who have steadily developed an electronica cache sound that draws sonically from grime, dubstep, electro and synth-pop, Darkstar and are newly signed to Warp Records.

The project reflects a revised perspective on technology and its increasingly closer relationship with the human body.

The weekends events included installations and performances from:

Andrea Byrne, Patatap, Mogees, Martyn Ware, Fatima Al Quidiri, Algorave, Bleep.com, Darkstar, Warp, Ninja Tune

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Martyn Ware worked with Tracey Moberley and Sarah Hopkins to learn each other's disciplines and create works based around the theme of the legacy of steel, featuring printmaking, 3D soundscaping, ceramics, embroidery and painting.

Tracey Moberly is an interdisciplinary artist, author and radio host, and was also a co-owner of The Foundry in London.

Sarah Hopkins is an established Welsh printmaker. Her work focuses mainly on the urban environment and industrial heritage of South Wales.

Illustrious create a 3D soundscape covering the entire central piazza of Portmeirion (60m x 30m) playing a giant version of Prisoner soundtracks, and created a world-premiere 3D-sound version of the impressive new Kevin Allen feature film interpretation of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.