It’s Always Ourselves We Find In The Sea @ FOCUS Art Fair
It’s Always Ourselves We Find in the Sea is a sound and art installation first showcased in Venice, exploring water’s universal connection. Created by Martyn Ware, Gabriel Ware, and Charles Stooke, with storytellers Oscar Blustin and Anna Söderblom, the piece combines soundscapes with visuals of flowing water and oceanic movement. This 2024 iteration, displayed at […]
Adventures in the Electroverse @ The Piece Hall
Adventures in the Electroverse’ is a fully immersive, multi-sensory art and 3D sound installation by renowned Yorkshire electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware in conjunction with Monitor Audio. Born in Sheffield, Martyn started his music career forming the synth-pop band The Human League in 1977 and later in 1980, Heaven 17, the electro-pop band that took. […]
Sense Of Steel
Sense Of Steel was an ongoing collaborative multi-disciplinary project throughout 2014 exploring the potential for artists to learn from each other’s disciplines. Martyn Ware and artists Tracey Moberley and Sarah Hopkins created a series of works together around the theme ‘the legacy of steel‘ – featuring printmaking, 3D soundscaping, ceramics, embroidery, and painting. In 2015-6 […]
Fast Forward
As part of the Science Museum’s exhibition ‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, Illustrious Company created and installed a 3D soundscape to accompany the physical displays. Fast Forward looked at the science behind Formula 1’s racing machines, and how the industry’s innovations were impacting our everyday lives, from the way we care […]
The Beatles Show
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 […]
Liquid Histories, Shanghai
Illustrious has created an immense 3D soundscape in collaboration with Central Saint Martins and Aberrant Architects in Shanghai as part of their Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2017. LIQUID HISTORIES – ‘The Thames between imaginary and reality’ The title of the installation refers to the way that history can be told through multiple viewpoints and […]
WE FOUND LOVE IN THE 80’S
Illustrious collaborated with artist Dawinder Bhansal to create a soundscape based on frank interviews with a variety of couples who fell in love in the 80’s, and are still together. The piece can be found, along with many other reminiscent artifacts on the WE FOUND LOVE IN THE 80’S website. Dawinder Bhansal Comments – “The […]
Sweetly The Air Flew Overhead
Working in collaboration with Cathy De Monchaux, Illustrious provided the three-dimensional soundscapes for Sweetly The Air Flew Overhead an exhibition of visual, sculptural, and sonic art. A Turner-Prize Nominated artist, Cathy De Monchaux’s work defies categorisation, and she has over a number of years exhibited extensively across the world. For this innovative exhibition, Illustrious created a 3D […]
Hong Kong Container Scape
In 2012, we collaborated with Marcus Lyon to create an immersive, metallic soundscape to accompany a beautiful photography series that captures some of the largest migrations of shipping containers across the 21st century. “As the ability of humans, goods and services to circumnavigate the planet increases exponentially we are left disconnected from a simple view […]
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 […]