SYMPHONY OF NOISE – VR

Find the soundscapes of your life – step by step – from the first heartbeat to the chaotic sound of everything around you and gain the power to create the soundtrack of the world.

Immerse yourself in the world of sonic landscapes of Matthew Herbert in high-end sound design, where you can hear, see and feel sound in a way not possible before immersive technology – compose your own score.
Going through the VR experience, interacting with the sounds around one-self and within one-self, creating a score at the end of the experience, we learn to listen to the world differently. All sound is music. Every sound has a meaning and tells its own story.

From the time we are unborn, then we are explorers of the world around us and we express ourselves without language – we listen, then we are being socialized, until we become one with the world. This is a story through sound.

Through the VR experience we will feel the whole existence: us, the world, the universe. In this experience, you go on a hero’s journey because you are the hero.

This is a journey seeking to bridge and explore the relation of the inside self to the outside through the medium of sound. It is a sonic virtual-reality experience that transforms how you perceive your daily reality.

Michaela Pnacekova is a Slovak interactive creator, producer and a PhD candidate at York University, Toronto. Her focus lies in the ways new media impact the real through interaction with algorithmic processes and artificial intelligence. She co-produced the VR AI installation Chomsky vs. Chomsky: First Encounter, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020. She is the author and producer of the interactive predictive policing app PRE-CRIME CALCULATOR. Since 2014, she has produced three feature length documentaries (BORDER CUT, WATERPROOF, SCARS) and two short fiction films, which have been shown internationally. She has received Special Mention at the Bosch Stiftung East European Co-Production Prize 2014, EWA Development Award 2017 and Golden Frog for Best Feminist Play in 2009.

Writer & Creative Director
Michaela Pňačeková

Writer & Co-Creative Director
Jamie Balliu

Visual & Technical Lead Unity
Paul Kirsten

Composer & Interactive Music Developer
Phivos-Angelos Kollias

Producer
Stefan Kloos
Michaela Pňačeková

Co-Producer
Jamie Balliu

Production
Kloos & Co. Medien / Kloos & Co. Ost

Co-Production
UPCreatives
Reeperbahnfestival
VRHam!

Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Creative XR
Catapult Digital
Arts Council England
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

FIVARS – Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories 2020
FIVARS – Award for Excellence in Sound Design

World Premiere / Nationale Premiere
Reeperbahn Music Festival 2019, Hamburg, Germany

International Premiere
IDFA Doc Lab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Further Festivals
VR Ham! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival 2019 (Prototyp)
Zlin Film Festival 2020, Czech Republic
L.E.V. Matadero 2020, Spain
FIVARS – Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories 2020, Canada

Project in development presented at
Sheffield Alternate Realities Market 2018, UK
Venice Production Bridge 2018, Italy