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Salon du Prêt-à-Porter
As part of the annual Paris Fashion Fair, Illustrious were commissioned to compose a full 3D soundscape to feature in the Salon du Prêt-à-Porter exhibit.
Installed in the large opening room of the exhibition in which thousands of journalists and fashionistas passed through, the soundscape was a continuous hour long loop played in 3D sound.
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Private Soundscape Installation
Commissioned by the CEO of a famous Italian leather wear brand, Illustrious created the world’s first private 3D sound installation.
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La France C'est Renversant
Installed in the glamorous Parisian department store Galleries Lafayette, ‘La France C'est Renversant’ was a series of artistic interventions through 3D sound.
Under the artistic direction of Hilton McConnico, Illustrious created a 3D soundscape that reinvented the spirit of the Pigalle district for the 21st century, taking visitors on a journey through French design, creation, innovation and tradition.
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Tokyo by Kenzo Fragrance Launch
Working in collaboration with Skrapic Consulting, Illustrious created a series of immersive 3D soundscapes to accompany an experiential brand installation featured at the launch of Kenzo’s ‘Tokyo’ fragrance for men.
The launch combined visuals and light installations by Skrapic with ambient electronic compositions and three dimensional sound technology from Illustrious, to provide an immersive experience for visitors reflecting the cutting edge metropolitan style of the fragrance and Kenzo brand.
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In partnership with Kenzo and SKRAPIC Consulting.
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Breathing Trees
Installed for the Festival Arbes et Lumieres, Breathing Trees was a large-scale immersive outdoor light and sound installation that transformed an enormous tree in the centre of Geneva into a living, breathing set of lungs.
Using LED color changing technology, the tree was illuminated to give the impression of ‘breathing with light’ while simultaneously the sound of breathing was created via Illustrious’ three-dimensional sonic imaging technology.
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In partnership with Festival Arbes et Lumieres and Creatmosphere.

InnovAction
Held as part of the Udine InnovAction Fair, Martyn Ware of Illustrious hosted a special one-off ‘talk show’ in which guests discussed aspects of interaction and immersive sound.
The live discussion featured guests Andy Cameron from Fabrica, Luciana Haill from IBVA, Lewis Sykes from Cybersonica and the Sancho Plan, Mike Faulkner from D-Fuse and Brian Duffy from Modified Toy Orchestra.
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Transparent Mirrors
Composed by Illustrious’ Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware, ‘Transparent Mirrors’ was a three dimensional 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, Clarke and Ware's composition offered an immersive and contemplative environment in which to reflect upon the space and the visual stimuli within it.
For the installation of ‘Transparent Mirrors’, Illustrious used three dimensional surround sound technology to increase visitors awareness of the movement...
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Venice Film Festival: DJ v Italian Film Soundtrack
Commissioned for the Venice Film Festival, Illustrious created a 3D sound installation for La Rotunda del Cinema Italiano, one of the festivals main venues.
The unique 3D sound field comprised ambient electronic music composed by Illustrious especially for the event and was interspersed with famous Italian film soundtrack music, that had been digitally remastered for the performance.
The soundscape lasted three hours with the beginning and end blended to provide a seamless continual loop of sound.
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In partnership with Venice Film Festival and Venice Biennale.
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Echo City
Featuring a soundscape from Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company, Echo City was an installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale that described the city of Sheffield from a variety of scales.
Developed under the leadership of Jeremy Till, Director of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, Echo City was described as an “urban register” made up of found objects, architectural projects, photography, an immersive audio experience from Illustrious, and at its centre an interactive model by Jim Prevett which invited visitors to reconfigure urban elements from the surrounding installations.
For the exhibition, Ware created ‘1:10,000,000’, a soundscape that p...
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In partnership with the Venice Architecure Biennale and the British Council.

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 Gow and Sibelius.
Each of the building's 365 windows were independently lit as a 360 degree light show, accompanying the movement and dynamics of the live spatialized music.
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Soundlife Ludwigsburg
Illustrious have created an immersive experience based on the unique sonic fingerprint of the city of Ludwigsburg – and how it fascinatingly differs from other urban environments.
Martyn Ware used unique sounds from the city and recorded a sonic DNA to transport you to the city, wherever you are and you into a deeper understanding of the city and people of Ludwigsburg and shine a powerful experiential light on our appreciation of the sensory world around us all.
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The Future Empire, 24 Hour Music Track
Illustrious helped to create a 3D soundscape featuring sounds created by Empire of The Sun, in collaboration with Australian production companies The Feds and Visual Jazz.
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The illustrious portfolio includes installations, events and performance works alongside many media projects.
Illustrious has developed projects for organisations such as BP, The British Council, Sony Computer Entertainments Europe, The National Trust, The Science Museum, The Royal Ballet, V&A, Amnesty International, Unilever and Museum of London.
Illustrious often collaborates with other creative partners such as IMAGES&Co, Jason Bruges Studio and New Angle, amongst many others.