Sing with Jellyfish

You find yourself immersed in a serene aquatic visual and sonic environment. In the distance, you notice fanciful marine life swimming around you. You gaze at one, and it approaches you.

As you move your head and body, this jellyfish reveals itself as connected to you, mirroring your every movement. Speak to it and you hear your own voice transformed.

With this vocal input, you engage in the environment. A jellyfish swarm echoes and loosely harmonizes your melody, so that you join in their chorus, triggering baby jellyfish spawning and other surprising chains of interactions. Lend your song to a different jellyfish, and discover a new character of transformation. Stay silent, and the jellyfish departs.

Bespoke technology for rich immersion

Our tailor-made synthesizers are driven by real-time voice analysis of the singer, measuring pitch, amplitude, and even nuances like tonality and phrasing. These sonic inputs transform a wide gamut of environmental parameters - the surrounding soundscape, harmonic and rhythmic details, colors, animation, and spatial qualities. All of this is realized in our original, fully-immersive three-dimensional sound system.

• Synesthesia

Drawing on a rich history of color/pitch synesthesia (and composers like Scriabin), each scale tone produces a distinct color, so a singer can visualize and control their tone as they vocalize.

• Synchronized clock

Rhythms are synced with one another at a shared tempo, strengthening the collective feeling of participation. With the soundscape pulsing away in time, multiplayer participants feel togetherness as they would in an experienced musical ensemble.

Perfectly suited both for public spaces and home use.

Simple presentation
The Jellyfish is available for Oculus Quest and HTC Vive. It can also be shown in a private or public exhibition space as a continuous projection.

The “choir” multi-user presentation
A presentation with several visitors singing in the same space is a desirable possibility ; each one singing in a strange virtual choir, harmonizing with virtual non-human entities.

A large-scale art installation is planned for production, featuring oversized, wraparound projection and walk-up-and-use headsets.