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.

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.

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.

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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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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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.

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.

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.

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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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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.

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.

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.

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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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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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. 

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.

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.

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.

Soundscape celebrating this year’s ‘road to the final’.

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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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.

Martyn's comments...

“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…”

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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