Sound Oasis
Created to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Sound Oasis showcased especially commissioned site and time-specific work from twelve international artists. Playing twenty-four hours a day seven days a week over a two-month period, the purpose of the installation was to create a Sound Oasis that interacted with the […]
Sound Cube
Commissioned by the New Sound New York festival, Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke created a three-dimensional soundscape that played in Charles Morrow’s immersive audio installation Sound Cube. Illustrious’ composition was one of twelve to be played in the Sound Cube, alongside such other artists and composers as Olivia Block, Shelley Hirsch, Miya Masaoka, Steve McCaffrey, Charles […]
Panorama
Illustrious created a huge 3D soundscape in the beautiful location of Tietgenkolegiet in Copenhagen to accompany the opening event for Strom Electronic Music Festival. The spectacular hour-long immersive event featured The Danish Youth Orchestra, and Mike Sheridan’s Band, performing a world-premiere work Drifting Through Time and Space, together with works by Gorecki, Arvo Part, Neil […]
YSL Belle D’Opium
Working alongside SKRAPIC Consulting, Illustrious Company created a 3D Sound installation that featured as part of the multi-sensory “experience room” at the relaunch party of Yves Saint Laurent’s Belle D’Opium fragrance. At the event, attended by a host of celebrities, guests were ushered into the YSL “experience room” in which sounds, smells, and visuals were […]
Going Home
Going Home was a 3D orchestral soundscape composition designed to accompany the poignant and beautiful paintings featured in Pete McKee’s This Class Works. Pete’s exhibition was an exploration of his own working-class background, melding the pride, tenacity, hope, fight, passion, and resourcefulness he witnessed growing up. The exhibition also featured the work of several other […]
The Creators Project
Working alongside artist, musician and composer Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Illustrious provided spatialised 3D sound for an original composition written by Zinner which featured as part of ‘The Creators Project’ World Tour. Titled A.D.A.B.A., the installation consisted of a set of tall, black pleated fabric walls on which LED boards printed with Zinner’s […]
Everything You Can Imagine …
Everything You Can Imagine is Real was a night hosted by The National Portrait Gallery inspired by Picasso’s circle in Montmartre in the first decade of the 20th century, The Gallery became an artists’ colony featuring a wild cross-pollination of ideas, music, poetry, performance, art, film, and dance. Curated and produced by Martyn Ware. Contributing […]
Church Of Rare Souls
This audioscape was commissioned as part of The National Festival of Making 2018. It takes the listener on an immersive journey through Tony’s Empress Ballroom, known as ‘the heart and soul of dancing’ in Blackburn. Northern Soul classics were intertwined with human voices and industrial sounds taken from the factory floor. Driving towards a sonic […]
Transparent Mirrors
Transparent Mirrors was a 3D soundscape installed alongside sculptural work by Philip Tsiaras. Taking inspiration from both Tsiaras’ sculptures and the sonic beauty of the Venetian streets and squares surrounding the Biennale, Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware’s composition offered an immersive and contemplative environment in which to reflect upon the space and the visual stimuli […]
Jangbar
Jangbar is a single-screen gallery work by Zarina Bhimji, shot on 35mm on location in East Africa, specifically Zanzibar and Kenya. The film takes as its starting point the trade and immigration routes between India and Africa. Jangbar uses research and real events to create a fictional film, formed around a non-linear narrative told through […]