REMIX CULTURE – Spatial Audio Experience

REMIX CULTURE invited visitors to explore the four thematic pillars of Esch2022 through an interactive Sound-Light Tunnel. We developed the acoustic narrative, composing an overarching musical dramaturgy and the location-based AR audio that made each theme spatially tangible.

Our Role Sound Concept, Sound Design, Composition // Contractor battleROYAL // Light Design Optikalusion // Audio Hardware Usomo // Client Esch2022 // Year 2020

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Created for Esch Press Day 2020, REMIX CULTURE offered an early glimpse of Esch-Our-Alzette’s programme as European Capital of Culture 2022. At the centre of the event was an interactive Sound-Light Tunnel that introduced the project’s four guiding themes: Europe, Nature, Yourself and Art.

Visitors experienced these themes while moving through the tunnel wearing trackable headphones. Alongside a synchronised light choreography, location-based AR audio revealed different sonic elements depending on each visitor’s position, allowing the installation to unfold through movement as well as listening.

We developed the acoustic narrative of the experience, composing an overarching musical layer that connected the entire installation while giving each thematic chapter its own distinctive sound world. Numerous AR audio elements expanded these compositions into a spatial listening experience, making the conceptual structure of REMIX CULTURE acoustically tangible.

The result was an audiovisual environment in which music, light and location-based audio worked together to communicate the cultural vision of Esch2022 through sound.

PROJECT SCOPE

Role Of Sound
Sound translated the four themes of REMIX CULTURE into distinct sonic worlds, connecting them through an overarching musical dramaturgy while complementing the installation’s choreography of light.
Mode Of Encounter
Visitors explored the Sound-Light Tunnel wearing trackable headphones, discovering location-based AR audio as they moved through the installation.
Sound Logic
A continuous musical layer established the overall dramaturgy, while Europe, Nature, Yourself and Art each unfolded through their own evolving palette of music, sound design and AR audio elements.
Source Material
The acoustic narrative was developed around the four thematic pillars of Esch2022, giving each theme its own sonic character.
Production Role
Sound concept, composition and sound design, including the overarching musical dramaturgy and the AR audio content for all four thematic worlds.
Sound System
Audio was experienced through trackable headphones with location-based AR audio. No further technical details of the playback or tracking system have been published.
Insights
⁠Spatial Audio — How sound becomes part of spatial perception through movement and position.
⁠Immersive Sound — Designing coherent audiovisual environments through sound.
⁠Interactive Sound — Creating listening experiences that unfold through visitor movement.

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