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
The soundtrack of COLLIDE is an open composition which requires the improvisation of performers to the visuals. To do so, the musicians were given VR headsets to immerse themselves in the visual world of COLLIDE.
During their performance they interpreted the animation in real-time: the visuals of COLLIDE became a graphic score in motion, dictating the dynamism, intensity, rhythm and melodic choices of the players.
The soundtrack of Collide is based on an open composition process. Three cellists used VR headsets to immerse themselves in the visual world of the animation and interpreted it in real time as a graphic score.
The players were visually separated, with each performer seeing a different part of the animation, while hearing the improvisations of the others. The final soundtrack was composed from those recordings and mixed in Dolby Atmos, on 54 speakers, and 17 subs.
