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 the globe as...
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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 alongside SKRAPIC Consulting, Illustrious Company created a 3D Sound installation that featured as part of the multi sensual “experience room” at the relaunch party of Yves Sant 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 conjured to evoke the new fragrance.

Created as part of the Rome Reborn interactive learning tool and installed at the 2008 Siggraph Conference in Las Vegas, Virtual Rome was a 3D digital model of the anicent city that featured sound and music by Illustrious Company.

Installed by designer Sebastijan Jemec, Virtual Rome was part of an international initiative called Rome Reborn, whose goal was to create 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (c. 1000 B.C.) through to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (c. A.D. 550).

Working in collaboration with Bernard Frischer and the University of Virginia, Illustrious created concept 3D soundscapes to accompany the 3D visualisation Rome Reborn.

Rome Reborn was an international initiative whose goal was to create 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (c. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (c. A.D. 550).

Conceived as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), ‘New City’ was a conceptual imagining of a giant virtual urban structure that would house the world's population.

Created by Peter Frankfurt, Alex McDowell, Greg Lynn and Imaginary Forces, ‘New City’ featured an architecturally-scaled immersive media environment that served as the trailer to the concept of a living virtual world that is parallel and simultaneous to ours.

To accompany the video-narrative, Martyn Ware of Illustrious Company created a three-dimensional...
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Commissioned by the New Sound New York festival, Martyn Ware and Vince Clarke of Illustrious 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 Morrow, Phill Niblock, Michael J. Schumacher, Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, and Pamela Z.

The installation was curated by Charles Morrow, Stephen Vitiello and Christina Yang, and featured as part of New Sound New York, a citywide festival of performances, installations and public dialogues featuring new...
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As part of the Interfaith Centre’s ‘Sacred Waterways of New York Exhibition’, ‘Virtual Wishing Tree’ was a unique audio composition created by Vince Clarke and Martyn Ware of Illustrious.

Inspired by the ancient Shinto ritual of pinning dreams and hopes to a wishing tree, Illustrious collected wishes from visitors in the gallery who called a special telephone number and were asked to leave their wish ‘after the beep’.

These recordings were transferred into the Illustrious audio system and transformed into a unique composition, with ambient musical accompaniment provided by Clarke and Ware.

The Seattle Art Museum presents Chiho Aoshima: Rebirth of the World, a fantasy world, a colourful large-scale dreamscape printed on plexiglass, created by the Japanese artist Chiho Aoshima to celebrate “the evolution of human evolution” and uses a soundscape created by Illustrious.

Martyn and his son Gabriel Ware are proud to be involved as curators and composers for solstice2016.com, an epic worldwide online cultural event.

Solstice celebrations have existed for as long as people have been looking at the sun, especially for indigenous peoples whose habitats were closely tied to the cycle of the sun and earth, the solstice was a marked point in the year. Whether celebrating the day the sun never sets, or celebrating the rebirth of sunlight after the darkest period o...
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