Hearts on Fire
Commissioned by exclusive diamond jewellery retailer Hearts on Fire, Illustrious created a series of 3D Soundscapes to play in all of their stores worldwide. Like the diamonds themselves, these compositions were one-off, gentle, and delicate. Customers were provided with a unique immersive retail experience.
Adventures in the Electroverse
Adventures in the Electroverse embodies the culmination of over 250 hours of interviews and 3 years of research and analysis into the methods and inspirations of some of the world’s greatest musicians, artists, producers, actors, politicians, comedians, and creators of all kinds. Drawing on Illlustrious’s immense experience of soundscape creation and audience engagement, this rich mix of […]
Tales from the Bridge
Composed by Martyn Ware in collaboration with artistic director David Bickerstaff, Tales from the Bridge was a mesmerizing soundscape covering the entire length of the Millennium Bridge across London’s River Thames. It featured an hour-long looping immersive ambient electronic musical composition merged with an engaging spoken narrative written by the poet Mario Petrucci and voiced […]
SoundLife London
Composed and installed by Illustrious, SoundLife London was a unique 3D audio experience that sought to embody the sonic essence of London. Over a ten-day period, the composition, an hour-long looped soundscape, inhabited the entire space of the bustling Leicester Square Gardens in the heart of the capital. Revealing the 3D sound world that surrounds […]
Galeries Lafayette
La France C’Est Renversant was a store-wide series of artistic interventions in the Galeries Lafayette department store, Paris. The Galeries take you on a journey through French design, creation, innovation, and tradition under the artistic direction of Hilton McConnico. Illustrious created a 3D soundscape reinventing the spirit of the Pigalle for the 21st Century.
Echo City
Echo City was an installation in the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale that described the city of Sheffield from a variety of scales. The theme of the Biennale in 2006 was ‘Architecture Beyond Building’. Developed under the leadership of Jeremy Till, Director of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, Echo City was described […]