ABOUT A real-time VR experience, Sonic Platforms created a live 3D-scanning interface within a virtual gaming environment built on Arcadia —a Unity 3D/Clojure platform integration. The Sonic Platforms team scanned Capsule Show in-store guests into a collective world over the course of a live event at Space Ninety 8 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Virtual Reality music video with live 360-video production at National Sawdust, original video and 3D content, spatial audio mix. Release in 2017. "Inaba Williams and MTWTF have produced ‘Utopia–Dystopia,’ an exhibition highlighting the vital role design plays now that we are entirely supported by technology. The multi-channel video installation presents snapshots of our technology-centered existence, acting as a prismatic interface with the spectrum of utopian and dystopian images we encounter at every moment in every place. The spaces, products, identities, and experiences offered up to visitors by these two New York-based firms are meant to ask, ‘What possible futures should designers propose at a time when to be human, to be true to ourselves, is to be completely one with technology?"" - Inaba Williams Exhibition Design: Inaba Williams, MTWTF. Fabrication: Kin and Company. Video System Design: Sonic Platforms. Exhibited at A/D/O (Amalgamated Drawing Office) in Greenpoint, NY. For
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Editorial Photography, 3D capture, animation, featuring Spencer Kohn (Actor/Model). View Brain Dead '15 Spring/Summer "Drop 2" Lookbook. From Christopher Klimovski of Hypebeast: "Taking inspiration from post-punk, skateboarding and underground comics, creative collective Brain Dead is a brand defined by its erratic, internet-based designs and prints. In its Spring/Summer 2015 lookbook dubbed “Drop 2,” it features T-shirts and sweats sporting prints from tripped-out dogs to wartime graphics. Brain Dead teamed up with new media design firm Sonic Platforms to create a psychedelic 3D rendered lookbook reminiscent of a fever dream shot solely on a 3D scanner.."
Spatial sound design for film and exhibition examining urban forces and control within the Centro de Operações Rio (COR), an IBM Smart Cities initiative. Installed at the Het Nieuwe Instituu, Rotterdam and the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
In collaboration with Columbia University's GSAPP (Mark Wasiuta, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Sharif Anous) and Studio-X Rio. Narrator: Louise Dreier. Recorded with Alex Hamadey at Hyperballad.Arcadian Carousel
3D scans from the event are available on Sketchfab.
Sonic Platforms — Arcadian Carousel from SONIC PLATFORMS on Vimeo.Interferometric Motion: 3D Printed Spatial Audio
Urban Outfitters Capsule Show
Sonic Platforms @ Space Ninety 8 / Urban Outfitters & Champion Capsule Collection Launch from SONIC PLATFORMS on Vimeo.
No Regular Play / Lake Gilmore VR Music Video
Utopia / Dystopia at A/D/O
Tony Oursler, Imponderable
MoMA, Oursler Studio (US), LUMA Foundation (FR, ZH).Braindead Drop 2 Lookbook
Control Syntax Rio
Interferometry is the experimental measurement of displacement caused by the construction and deconstruction of waveforms. For this project, we aimed to develop a system that would visualize the interfering trajectories of a set of points assigned and emitting specific frequencies. Using a fixed frequency and amplitude, the steps of intensity for interference are mapped three-dimensionally. Completed at Columbia University GSAPP.
Interferometric Motion from SONIC PLATFORMS on Vimeo.
Sonic Platforms presented an interactive world of original 3D content for Urban Outfitters and Champion.
Featured in Fashion Times / PAPER Mag / Space 98 / Launch.
Sonic Platforms designed, programmed, and built the system for Oursler's 5D cinema. Multichannel video and audio playback, 4D effects and timing, lighting design, spatial sound design for exhibition and installation. Imponderable exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York and LUMA Foundation in Arles and Zurich.
