Collide is a synaesthetic art installation for Dolby Gallery in San Francisco, created with onformative. We composed and spatialised the soundtrack from recorded cello improvisations.
Our Role Sound Concept, Open Composition, Sound Production, Mix & Master // Client Dolby Gallery, San Francisco // Creative Direction, Design onformative // Production Imprint Project, onformative // Research Christian Loclair // Year 2016
COLLIDE is a synaesthetic art installation in which image and sound were developed through a shared compositional process.
The soundtrack is based on an open composition process. Three cellists used VR headsets to enter the visual world of the animation and interpreted it in real time as a moving graphic score.
Each performer saw a different part of the animation while hearing the improvisations of the others. The final soundtrack was composed from these recordings and mixed in Dolby Atmos on 54 speakers and 17 subwoofers.
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