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 […]
i-DENTITY
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of i-D Magazine, the Fashion and Textile Museum launched an exhibition using images, short films, graphics, scents, and 3D sound from Illustrious to provide a multi-dimensional tour of the magazine’s history, as well as the wider concept of ‘identity’. Directed and curated by the magazine’s founder, creative director, and editor-in-chief, […]
Michael Clark Company
This piece was specially commissioned for the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern. Part II: New Work was a performance by the Michael Clark Company that utilised movement, film, light and 3D sound provided by Illustrious to create a site-specific work. Created in response to the monumental architecture of the Turbine Hall, the unique event […]
Bowie’s Mood Music
Alexis Kirke and Martyn Ware discovered compelling patterns through computer analysis of David Bowie’s lyrics, song keys, album sales, and music features, presenting musical “sonifications” – the audio display of non-sound data. Using sonification of Bowie’s career data to map musical features such as tempo, pitch, and loudness and turning them into new musical compositions, […]
On Public Display
On Public Display was a 3D soundscape that was composed to delicately match and accompany Vanessa Fenton’s ballet of the same name. Staged at London’s famous Royal Opera House, the performance was commissioned by the Royal Ballet and compiled the work of five different choreographers drawing inspiration from the collective ballets created for Diaghilev’s Ballets […]