EarFilms is a storytelling experience like no other. Place on a blindfold, sit in a 3D sphere of speakers and lose yourself in a lifelike, vivid story for your ears and your imagination. Audiences have compared it to VR for your imagination, like a lucid dream and like a film where each listener is their own Director.
| CLIENT: | EarFilms |
| TAGS: | 3D Audio Mix, Sound Design |
| CATEGORY: | Installations |
| DATE: | [post_published] |
The groundbreaking show To Sleep To Dream was originally commissioned at ISPA in NYC and went on to tour internationally overall several years – culminating in a one week residence at Skywalker Sound in California. Exploring our relationship with dreaming and inspired by the endless possibilities of the human imagination, To Sleep To Dream is a tale of hope in darkness. Set in a dystopian world that could be a future vision of an Earth dominated by the impact of climate change, To Sleep To Dream imagines a society where dreaming is outlawed.
Tour Highlights
Brighton International Festival (UK premier)
Skywalker Ranch, California
Mesa Arts, Arizona
Edinburgh Festival (British Council Showcase)
Recital Centre, Melbourne
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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SOUND DESIGNER’S SCOOP
“Working on the 360 mix for To Sleep To Dream was an epic exploration in sonic storytelling. We went on a journey to see how sound could create a very visual story experience in people’s imaginations. Early work with collaborators from the Royal National Institute of Blind People provided fascinating insight into this topic and triggered a whole series of questions about how we convey emotion through sound. Then there was the shift from mixing with 2 loudspeakers to mixing with 22 loudspeakers – this allowed us to essentially create a sonic theatre set in the room and choreograph every sound within the space.”
CHRIS TIMPSON, SOUND DESIGNER & INSTALLATION ARTIST
