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Topology: Embodying Transformation
Part of a series of events held at Tate Modern for its Topology season, Embodying Transformation was a two part performance designed to give an embodied experience of topological concepts through Illustrious’ 3D sound technology.
The first performance, ‘Knots & Donuts’, was an immersive sound sculpture exploring mathematical concepts. Conceived by Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths, University of London), the piece involved dancers enacting shapes within the space which were then translated into 3D Ambisonic sound.
In the second performance, ‘Ordinal 5’, dancers performed abstract mathematical ideas within an acou...
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In partnership with Tate Modern, Goldsmiths University of London, Ohio State Univeristy

Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap live in 3D Sound
The Luxury Gap live in 3D Sound was a music concert by Heaven 17, which saw the group perform their 1983 album live for the first time in its entirety using Illustrious' immersive audio technology.
The groups second long player, The Luxury Gap went to number four in the UK album charts when it was originally released featuring four hit singles including ‘Let Me Go’, ‘Temptation’, ‘Come Live With Me’ and ‘Crushed by the Wheels of Industry’.
Playing to a sold out crowd at the Roundhouse in Camden, the concert was performed in 3D sound provided by Illustrious.
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Late Shift Extra: ReAnimate
Curated by Illustrious’ own Martyn Ware alongside Karen Pearson of Folded Wing, ReAnimate was an evening of live music, sound art, film, performance, and philosophy within London's National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
Part of the regular Late Shift event, ReAnimate transformed the NPG into a giant creative and imaginative playground for the senses, featuring specially commissioned sonic soundscapes, artists panel discussions, DJ sets, book readings, film screenings, artist led drawing workshops and a bespoke perfume to capture the fragrance of the night.
Featured artists performing live on the night include Ben Westbeech, Andreya Triana,...
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In partnership with FTI Consulting.
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Michael Clark Company, Part II: New Work
Especially 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 the Illustrious Company to create a site-specific work.
Created in response to the monumental architecture of the Turbine Hall, the unique event provided an extraordinary opportunity for Tate Modern visitors to witness the artistic process behind Clark's choreography.
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In partnership with Tate Modern, Barbican Arts Centre, Arts Council England

Competition for National Portrait Gallery
In conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery and BT’s ‘Road to 2012’ participation project, the competition was a challenge to Goldsmiths students to create new portraiture in any digital media they see fit.
Judged by Brian Griffin and Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company, the winners work was later shown at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the ReAnimate festival.
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In partnership with BT and the National Portrait Gallery.

Feelosophy
Featured in the annual London Design Festival, Feelosophy was a sound installation commissioned by Design Bridge, which through an immersive audio experience captured the essence of Clerkenwell where the agency is based.
For the piece, the Illustrious Company utilised the “feeled notes” that Design Bridge employees had collected, piecing together objects, photos, drawings and scribbled notes, before translating these into a 3D soundscape.
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In partnership with the London Design Festival 2010 and Arts Council England.
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The Creators Project: London 2010
Working alongside artist, musician and composer Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Illustrious provided spatialised 3D sound for an original 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 photographs were hung. Within this closed off space, visitors were exposed to an 18 minute long composition by Zinner, with sound spatialised in three dimensions by Martyn Ware of Illustrious.
Launched in New York, A.D.A.B.A. went on to tour across th...
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In partnership with Intel and Vice.

The Creators Project: Nick Zinner
Working alongside artist, musician and composer Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Illustrious provided spatialised 3D sound for an original 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 photographs were hung. Within this closed off space, visitors were exposed to an 18 minute long composition by Zinner, with sound spatialised in three dimensions by Martyn Ware of Illustrious.
Launched in New York, A.D.A.B.A. went on to tour across th...
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In partnership with Intel and Vice.

Red Bull Music Academy presents 3D Soundclash
Held at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall, 3D Soundclash was a live music event that saw DJs from Warp records and Ninja Tune battling it out using Illustrious Company’s 3D sound technology.
Warp records and Ninja Tune are two of Britain's seminal independent labels, consistently promoting new and exciting electronic groups and musicians. 3D Soundclash provided the opportunity for the labels to not only demonstrate the wealth of talent on their rosters but to also hear many of their pioneering releases in a whole new dimension via 3D sound provided by Illustrious.
The event was organised by the Red Bull Musi...
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Large Scale Immersive Audio Experiment
Working in collaboration with Goldsmiths University and Duran Audio, the Large Scale Immersive Audio Experiment provided a chance for students from the college to have their soundscapes played on the backfield of the college using Illustrious’ 3D audio technology.
Running for over a fortnight, the installation played a number of pieces created by the Goldsmiths Screenschool and Sound Practice Research, with Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company providing workshops for students to learn more about immersive audio.
Placing Duran Audio’s Intellivox DSP controlled Beam Steering Loudspeakers at each corner of Goldsmiths college g...
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In partnership with Future of Sound, Duran Audio, and the Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studio.

SoundLife London
Composed and installed by Illustrious Company, SoundLife London was a unique 3-D audio experience that embodied the sonic essence of London.
The composition, an hour long looped soundscape, inhabited the entire space of the capital’s bustling Leicester Square gardens over a ten day period, and was performed in 3-D sound.
Revealing the three dimensional sound world that surrounds us at all times, the performance featured recordings made by various community groups, schools, ethnic associations, reminiscence groups and youth clubs.
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In partnership with Future of Sound, Arts Co, and Westminster City Council.
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Breath
The first event of its kind, ‘Breath’ was a three dimensional outdoor soundscape composed to accompany the launch of Tim Winton’s novel of the same name.
Installed under Hungerford Bridge on London’s Southbank, the soundscape featured Tim Winton reading extracts from the book, while immersing the listener in an ultra-real seascape that utilised the sounds of crashing surf and breath.
In the two days that the event was held over 20,000 people visited the site to experience the soundscape.
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In partnership with Pan MacMillan.
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Fast Forward: 20 Ways F1 is Changing Our World
As part of the Science Museum’s exhibition ‘Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world’, Illustrious Company created and installed a 3-D 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 for patients through to how we heat our homes.
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In partnership with the Science Museum and Formula 1.
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Fanta ‘Stealth’ App
Utilising high pitch sounds inaudible to adults, ‘Stealth’ was a mobile phone application from Fanta featuring sound developed by Matryn Ware of Illustrious.
Inspired by the ultra-sonic alarms used to stop teenage groups gathering, which play high-pitch sounds that only young people can hear, Fanta turned the technology upside down to create an app that allows teenagers to communicate between each other using frequencies adults cannot hear.
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In partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and XS2TheWorld.
Creatmosphere: Breathing Trees
Held as part of the Switched On London Festival, Creatmosphere: Breathing Trees was a large-scale immersive outdoor light and sound installation that transformed two enormous trees located next to Potters Field Park into living, breathing lungs.
The two 20 metre high trees were illuminated using LED color changing technology to give the impression of ‘breathing with light’ while simultaneously the sound of breathing was played in 3D sound.
A recreation of Breathing Trees, a work which was originally performed in 2006 at the Festival Arbres et Lumieres in Geneva, the restaging was a collaborative effort between Illustrious and Laurent Louyer of Creatmosphere...
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In partnership with Creatmosphere and Switched On London.

Cybersonica Late at Tate Britain
Billed as London's annual multimedia festival, Cybersonica Late at Tate Britain featured an evening of progressive electronic music, audiovisual performance and accessible sonic art, with a “greatest hits” of Illustrious' 3D sound work showcased at the event.
Hosted in the Rotunda at Tate Britain, the two hour loop was an edited compilation of 3D soundscapes and compositions created by Illustrious between 2002 and 2007.
To accompany the sound piece, visuals were provided by body/space/art, who projected a VJ installation onto a large suspended within the space.
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In partnership with Cybersonica, Arts Council England, Enter_Unknown, Inition, Body Data Space, and Epson.
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Every time I see the Sea...
Collecting together hundreds of still photographs, video footage, and personal experiences, ‘Every time I see the Sea...’ was an audio-visual installation that told the story of how Christian Aid and its partners responded to the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004.
For the project, Illustrious worked closely with design consultants AIG and Christian Aid, incorporating sound from various video source materials recorded during visits by Christian Aid to India and Sri Lanka to create a three dimensional soundscape that complimented and enhanced the visual installation.
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London Conversation
Commissioned by the British Film Institute (BFI) to mark the opening of their headquarters on London's South Bank, ‘London Conversation’ was an immersive audiovisual installation created by filmmakers D-Fuse and Illustrious.
Designed as a large scale piece of public art, the work was projected onto the exterior wall of the National Theatre and along the entire length of the facade of the BFI Southbank building with 3D sound installed onto the surrounding buildings.
The piece itself featured a number of films selected from the BFI National Archive, with the soundtrack blending samples from the films as well as new musical atmospheres c...
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In partnership with the British Film Insitute, D-Fuse, and the South Bank Centre.
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Weller Astronomy Galleries and the Peter Harrison Planetarium
As part of the The Royal Observatory’s five year extensive redevelopment, Illustrious provided a series of 3D immersive soundscapes and composed a new soundtrack for the museums Weller Astronomy Galleries and the Peter Harrison Planetarium.
Working in conjunction with design group Thomas Matthews who led the £16 million project, Illustrious created seven interlocking 3D soundscapes for the galleries as well as composing a soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound for the planetarium’s signature show.
Managed by Greenwich's National Maritime Museum, The Royal Observatory was originally designed in 1675...
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In partnership with The Royal Observatory Greenwich and the National Maritime Museum.
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Who's Afraid of the Dark: Ghost Machine
Created as part of the the V&A's late event ‘Who‘s Afraid of the Dark’, Ghost Machine was an immersive 3D audio installation exploring the paranormal through sound.
Performed in the darkened and atmospheric Cast Court, the three dimensional visitation used strange sounds and shards of human and subhuman speech to elicit forgotten ancestral memories.
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The Ante-Pavilion
Produced for the London Architecture Biennale by David Morley Architects, The Ante-Paviion was a temporary structure that offered visitors a multi-sensory experience through 3D sound by Illustrious.
Built in protest at the British councils decision to exclude all London based projects from exhibiting at the British Pavilion for that years Venice Biennale, the Pavilion provided the ideal resting point at the heart of the London Architecture Biennale route, and was one of its most popular attractions.
Construction of the Pavilion was undertaken by Price & Myers 3D Engineering, featuring collaborations from Tom Dixon and M...
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BP Helios DCT Awards 2005
Commissioned especially for the 2005 BP Helios DCT Awards, Illustrious created a suite of three dimensional sound compositions, each written to match the core brand values of each award category.
Set up in 2001, the Helios Awards are an annual event held by BP to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of employees working within the multinational organisation.
For the event, Illustrious wrote a series of compositions to accompany the awarding of each category, as well as entry and exit music for guests, with all audio spatiliased in 3D sound by Illustrious.
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New Ages of Man
Working in collaboration with the Royal Ballet, ‘New Ages of Man’ was a performance featuring choreography from Vanessa Fenton and electronic music in three dimensional sound by Illustrious.
Based on traditional Maypole tunes in keeping with the style of dance, the eight minute suite composed by Illustrious was spatialised in 3D sound to echo the movements of the dancers.
For the performance, costumes were provided by Central St Martins under-graduate Josephina Sundt, whose giant crochet designs helped earn the piece the L’Oreal Total Look award.
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The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House

Town and Country Festival
Shown as part of London's Regent Street Festival, ‘Town and Country’ was a three dimensional immersive sound installation contained within an everyday garden shed.
Composed by Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware of Illustrious, the pre recorded piece played inside the shed consisted of 3D sound recordings of various real and imagined British countryside locations that have no evidence of human intervention, edited together to form a hypnotic continuum of shifting atmospheres.
‘Town and Country’ was first installed in 2004 at The Other Flower Show which was held in the V&A Garden.
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On Public Display
Composed by Illustrious founders Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke, On Public Display was a 3D surround soundscape written to accompany Vanessa Fenton’s ballet of the same name.
Staged at London’s infamous Royal Opera House, the performance was commissioned by the Royal Ballet and comprised the work of five different choreographers drawing inspiration from any of the ballets created for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
For the sound-piece, Illustrious were inspired by and incorporated parts of Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, with the piece also featuring Andy Bell of Erasure on guest vocals.
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The Dark
Hosted by the Science Museum’s DANA Centre, The Dark was a specially created three-dimensional audio environment with haunted soundscapes provided by Illustrious.
A unique experience, The Dark gave visitors the opportunity to discover how hearing and other senses stimulate their imagination as well as alter their perception of reality, testing their senses with the echoes of virtual ghosts.
Working in collaboration with Braunarts, Illustrious provided three dimensional sound for the show helping to deliver the immersive paranormal experience.
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Town and Country at The Other Flower Show
Shown as part of The Other Flower Show held in the V&A Garden, ‘Town and Country’ was a three dimensional immersive sound installation contained within an everyday garden shed.
Composed by Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware of Illustrious, the pre recorded piece played inside the shed consisted of 3D sound recordings of various real and imagined British countryside locations that have no evidence of human intervention, edited together to form a hypnotic continuum of shifting atmospheres.
‘Town and Country’ was later reinstalled as part of the 2005 Regent Street Festival in the heart of London's busy shopping district.
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In partnership with UP Projects, V&A, BoConcept, and Lister.
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DANA Centre Opening
Commissioned for the grand opening of the Science Museum’s DANA Centre, Illustrious produced a sound installation and interactive multimedia performance both using three dimensional immersive audio.
For the 3D audio installation, Illustrious created a ‘sound field’ within the bar area of the building which stretched up to the second floor ceiling, playing ambient music composed by Illustrious.
In the evening, these soundscapes were incorporated into a live performance featuring two musicians placed at either end of the ground floor space with multimedia artist Jason Bruges providing visual stimuli as accompaniment.
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In partnership with the Science Museum.

Ghost Ship
Performed in the stairwells of the deserted four-storey Barge House at the Oxo Tower, ‘Ghost Ship’ was a three dimensional soundscape created by Illustrious for arts charity Metal, and the Unilever organisation.
Written around the paranormal theme of a ghost ship, the eery thirty minute composition was spatialised in 3D surround sound with speakers set up around the abandoned stairwells.
Responsible for organising the project, Metal are an arts charity that provides an artistic laboratory to champion the need for continual investment in artistic...
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In partnership with Metal and the Unilever Organisation.
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Knots'
Featuring an original composition by Martyn Ware of Illustrious, Knot's was a performance of contemporary dance choreographed by Vanessa Fenton for the Royal Ballet company.
The piece itself explored the circular poems of R.D. Laing re-imagined as mobile phone text messages, with compositions from Illustrious reflecting the major theme of the work using simple themes interweaving in an increasingly complex way to eventually lead to an untangling and circular resolution.
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In partnership with the Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, and Arts Council England.
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The Game of Their Lives
Featuring an original music soundtrack from Illustrious, ‘The Game of Their Lives’ was a documentary about the 1966 North Korean football team who gained legendary status after beating Italy in that years World Cup.
Broadcast on the terrestrial television channel BBC One and later sattelite station BBC Four, the documentary proved a great success and in 2003 earned its producers Passion Pictures and VeryMuchSo Productions, The Royal Television Society award for Best Documentary.
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In partnership with the BBC, Passion Pictures, and VeryMuchSo Productions.
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i-DENTITY: 25 Years of i-D magazine
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 magazines history as well as the wider concept of ‘identity’.
Directed an curated by the the magazine’s founder, creative director and editor-in-chief, Terry Jones, the exhibition sought to capture the essence of i-D, whose premise from its conception has been to empower people to express their own ideas and their individual identity.
As part of this multi sensual experience, Illustrious provided a three dimens...
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In partnership with The Design Museum.
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Black Death Exhibit
As part of the Museum of London’s Medieval Gallery, Illustrious created the sound design for the Black Death Exhibit, a study of the horrific plague that ravaged the city from 1348-1350.
The Black Death exhibit was audio visual installation that told the story of the plague, mixing oral narrative with sound effects and music to provide a chilling account of one of the most devastating periods in the city’s history.
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Imagine a World...Without Violence Against Women
Bringing together a diverse group of international contemporary artists, ‘Imagine a World...’ was an exhibition by Amnesty International that sought to question and enhance peoples perceptions of violence against women.
Featuring work from the likes of Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin and Stella Vine amongst others, the exhibition utilised a wide range of differing mediums including panting, sculpture, photography, film and interactive installations to imagine a world in which violence against women no longer existed.
For the exhibition, Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke of Illustrious set up a telephone answer service from which they remixed the recordings to create a three dimensional audi...
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In partnership with Coin Street: Community Builders and Up Projects.

Sony Playstation Party
Featuring performances from Vince Clark and Martyn Ware of Illustrious as well as a special set from pop group Erasure, the Sony Playstation Party was a private event that mixed ambient electronica and pop music using 3D surround sound.
Split into two parts, the show began with a performance of ambient electronic music composed by Clark and Ware, followed by a special set from Erasure in which the drums, bassline and much of the original arrangements were omitted in favour of experimental electronic soundscapes.
All music was composed and performed by Clark and Ware, with the concert spatialised in 3D audio by Illustrious using the Lake Hu...
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Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle
First premiered as part of a two-hour performance at the Roundhouse in London, ‘Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle’ was a one off performance/installation of 3D soundscapes by Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware of Illustrious.
Staged in a white cloth-lined room, twelve metres in diameter, the event was an immersive experience in which the soundscapes were reflected visually by colored lighting that referenced the title of each segment.
Composed and recorded by Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware, the soundscapes were later released as an album by Mute Records.
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In partnership with Mute Records.
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The Club
Featuring incidental musical compositions from Vince Clark and Martyn Ware of Illustrious, ‘The Club’ was a comedy play about Australian rules football, written by David Williamson and directed by Jonathan Guy Lewis.
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Darren Gough's Cricket Academy
Featuring music composed especially for the program by Illustrious, Darren Gough's Cricket Academy was a four part series in which the England fast bowler, Darren Gough alongside other well known cricketers, taught secondary pupils how to play cricket.
The series was produced by Chrysalis Television North and broadcast on Channel 4.
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In partnership with Chrysalis Television North and Channel 4.
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Krusch
An early Illustrious project that demonstrated the company’s pioneering use of three dimensional audio technology, Krusch was a 3D soundscape DJ set hosted, performed and installed by Illustrious.
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Michael Owen's Soccer Skills
Featuring music composed by Martyn Ware of Illustrious, Michael Owen’s Soccer Skills was a series in which then Liverpool and England soccer star Michael Owen shared his footballing skills with aspiring youngsters.
The series was produced by Chrysalis Television North and broadcast on the BBC.
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In partnership with Chrysalis Television North and the BBC.
Heroes
‘Heroes’ is 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), recreates the excitement of a variety of gold medal winning performances, and will provide the perfect anticipatory atmosphere to prepare the enormous number of visitors to the Wembley site during the 2012 Olympic period.
After the games, the location will become the site of a permanent soundscape installation, transforming to accompany different sporting and cultural events at Wembley.
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In partnership with The Mayor’s Office, Quintain, Encore Sounds, and Innovision.

Tales From The Bridge
Composed by Martyn Ware in collaboration with artistic director David Bickerstaff, ‘Tales from the Bridge’ is a mesmerizing three-dimensional soundscape covering the entire length of the Millennium Bridge. 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 by Mia Austen and Steven Alexander, and the stunning ‘Water Night’ by Eric Whitacre.
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The installation was created with endorsement of The Noise Abatement Society.

Bowie’s Mood Music
Alexis Kirke and Martyn Ware discover compelling patterns through computer analysis of Bowie’s lyrics, album sales and music features, presenting musical “sonifications” of their results as compositions. Part of V&A’s Bowie Friday Late, 18:30-22:00, 26th April 2013.
Plymouth University composer / research fellow Alexis Kirke and sound-artist / electronic music pioneer Martyn Ware, have discovered compelling patterns in numerical data from Bowie’s career; including song keys, computer lyric analysis results and album sales figures. Using “sonification” – the audio display of non-sound-data – they are able tohighlight the patterns. They will be playing their new sonification tunes, and explaining what this statistical mu...
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FA Cup Semi-Final Soundscape
Quintain and Budweiser

The Quiet House
Ilustrious creates a soundscape for the worlds first ‘Quiet House’ showcasing the quiet technology in the house and solutions for unwanted noise in everyday living environments. The project is meant to help consumers make informed decisions about the technology we keep in our homes, and to help reduce unwanted neighbour noise to de-stress our personal spaces.
Research has shown that the majority of consumers do not consider noise an applience makes at the time of purchase. Furthermore, around one million people reportedly moved house due to noise from their neighbours.
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The Diosynchronoscope
Illustrious create a new way to experience animation without a screen.
This is a 3D sound accompaniment for an illusion which gives the observer the impression that the arrangement of static objects can move and change form using a video projector which illuminates sequentially at fast speed.
The Diasynchronoscope is a new experimental medium where viewers can walk around an animation and appreciate it from all perspectives. It as an audio-visual combination of ‘art, theatre and installation’.
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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 with the refugees voices leading the narrative.
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“The epic scale of human displacement in the refugee camps comes to life powerfully and emotionally when you can hear and sense the voices of the people affected. Our 3D soundscape creates a realistic impression of the thoughts and experiences of the refugees — the sadness, the happiness, the resilience, the hopes and the dreams of a peaceful return to the country of their birth — Syria…”
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City Run London
Illustrious has created sound design and music for CITY RUN LONDON, the first in a series of mobile games set in real world history launching December 2015. This Tudor-Noir adventure follows a freedom fighter AKA “The Moth” across the City of London circa 1600 through Priories to Madhouse, Theatres, Jail and on with a smokey, sonic soundscape illuminating an intoxicating era, of glory and danger.
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Happy Hour at the British Library: Liquid Histories
The original immersive soundscape, spoken in Mandarin, has been created as part of a season of major art installations as at the London Pavilion at the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season. Under the theme of “Connections”, the curatorial team at Central Saint Martins has focused on the River Thames as a vessel of stories, both real and imagined. The installation reflects on the river as being simultaneously a public space of the imagination, a foundational source for the city and also an untamed natural power. The exhibition is currently housed in a magnificent 1930s grain silo on the Huangpu river in Shanghai, forging a connection between the two urban centres.
The curatorial team comprises David Chambers, Associate Lecturer on BA Architecture and MA Narrative Environment...
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The Outer Reaches
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 very essence of sonic futurism.
This free event in the British Library Entrance Hall was the third in a series of three presentations hosted by Martyn Ware – alongside Tales From the Bridge and Liquid Histories.
3D Soundscape by Martyn Ware for Illustrious
Original compositional elements by Delia Derbyshire (by kind permission of the Radiophonic Workshop)
Additional composition by Martyn Ware, Eddie Amos and Elena Ware for Illustrious.
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Late Shift Extra: Everything You Can Imagine is Real
Inspired by Picasso’s circle in Montmartre in the first decade of the 20th century, the Gallery becomes an artists’ colony featuring a wild cross-pollination of ideas, music, poetry, performance, art, film and dance. For one evening only, step inside the mind of Picasso where Everything You Can Imagine is Real…
Curated and Produced by Martyn Ware for Illustrious.
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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.