This project involved creating 360-degree visuals for Halina Rice’s New Worlds Immersive experience at The Old Market in Brighton. The show was powered by L-Isa spatial surround sound, which facilitated the movement of sounds through the space. The visuals complemented this movement making it a one-of-a-kind concert experience.
The show was realized in a relatively smaller, square space of about 123 square meters bound by screens on each side about 5 meters tall. The artist performed at the center on a slightly raised pedestal and the audience occupied the space around it. The concert being intimate, accommodating only about 50 people at a time, each audience member could appreciate the subtle details of the music and the carefully crafted visuals.
The key considerations for the visuals were movement around the three-dimensional space that accompanies the music and inducing a feeling of expansive space beyond the screens. The imagery was created with open-source 3D scan data and spherical photography, transforming them into unrecognizable new worlds. Halina’s music uses a lot of intricate sound design and the visuals echoed the same intricacy with delicately morphing point clouds. The bulk of visuals were built on TouchDesigner with compositing done on After-Effects.
