The Prisoner
Illustrious created 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.
Stand With Syria
For this three-year anniversary event, Martyn produced a 3D sonic installation using Syrian voices, sounds from the camps and music to create a highly emotive and immersive experience using refugee voices as the leading narrative. Martyn Ware comments – “The epic scale of human displacement in the refugee camps comes to life powerfully and emotionally […]
Soundlife Ludwigsburg
As part of Raum Welten Festival, Illustrious created an immersive experience based on the unique sonic fingerprint of the city of Ludwigsburg, and how it differs from other urban environments. Martyn Ware used unique sounds from the city and recorded a sonic DNA to audibly transport visitors to anywhere in the City. The soundscape offered […]
The Outer Reaches
Commissioned as part of a Season of Sound, celebrating the British Library’s sound archive. The original Radiophonic Workshop kindly allowed Illustrious access to previously-unheard snippets of original compositional ideas from the works of Delia Derbyshire. The result is a world-premiere ‘fever dream’ of sonic creativity – Delia’s astounding talent is overwhelmingly beautiful and embodies the […]
Dr Strangelove
Illustrious founder, Multimedia artist, and 3D soundscapist Martyn Ware teamed up with Eclectic Method to remix Dr. Strangelove. The potent collaboration offered a commentary on the tensions between the East and West at an ambiguous time, as divisions continue to escalate in modern day. “The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it’s been since the […]
Heroes
Heroes was an immersive soundscape based on great British Olympic heroes from games staged in London and elsewhere from 1908 to the present day. The 10-minute looping composition, situated beneath the Bobby Moore Bridge (directly outside Wembley Park tube station), recreated the excitement of a variety of gold medal-winning performances and provided the perfect anticipatory […]
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 […]