Cloud (Live): a 360 ambisonic film
27 Aug 2020
We worked with Heloise Tunstall-Behrens and Auclair on a 360 ambisonic film of them performing Cloud, from their choral sound work The Swarm — which follows the journey of a colony of honeybees as they find a new home.
It places you in the centre of the circle of singers, and as you move your focus around the circle, the audio does the same, this goes some way to immersing you in a live performance by the group.
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With Cloud, we are at the point in the bee swarm’s journey where they have agreed and decided on where to relocate, and are moving off to their chosen nest site. The bees are led by a small number of scout bees who circle and weave their way around the cloud of bees, helping guide them to move as one. The airy, spacious texture is to convey this airborne journey.
The performance was recorded in the Brunel Museum Shaft Rotherhithe, in surround sound using Ambisonic microphones, this enabled us to fully capture the singers and the unique reverberation of the space. You can even hear the rumble of a passing train at one point.
Huge thanks to Jack Reynolds for working with us on the audio capture and microphone array. Video was shot by Jake Cornish at VR360FLIX.com and features vocalists Sarah Parkes, Nouria Bah, Heloise Tunstall-Behrens, Luisa Gerstein, Liv Stones, Tanya Auclair, Sarah Anderson, Rosa Slade, Natalie Pela.
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