06 Mar News 2025
Orchitecture Brixton:
4th rendition of Orchitecture will be happening on Saturday 8th March 2025, exploding the fabulous Chineke! Orchestra around Lambeth Town Hall, in the heart of Brixton, London.
Developed in partnership with Lambeth Council in collaboration with Chineke! Foundation —Europe’s leading majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra— and Orbital Sound, this transformative performance invites audiences to step inside Lambeth Town Hall like never before, as Orchitecture transforms the building’s historic Edwardian architecture into a living, breathing symphony
The Deal, Shenzhen, China.
An Epic new Immersive Project set across 7 decks of a gorgeous 1960’s French Ship , the Ancerville ( renamed Mingua) now landlocked in downtown Shenzhen, China . – Involving 128 channels of sound and over 160 speakers ! – A Beast of a project !
A Sound Design commission with Dream Awake (An offshoot of the internationally renowned theatre company Geko) and CMG China. A physical theatre & dance production, taking audiences on a 2 hour journey in a bespoke set, custom built across 7 decks of this incredible old cruise liner, now lost in time in one of Chinas most futuristic cities!
This is an insanely complex and exciting project, developed over 3 years across 2 countries and cultures, this will mark a significant period of sabbatical time for Aswarm Director Thor McB to shift focus for awhile to China for sizeable chunk of 2025. Due to Open Autumn 2025!
The Flam’n Ears – Fireball Interactive.
– A sound, fire and light interactive designed for families and outdoor festivals after dark
– A collaboration with LightFires and LD Craig West. This wildly absurd interactive Twister Game / installation is developed from a Installation we designed for Pallant House Gallery Lift many moons ago called Atonal Time Twister, where people were tasked with playing twister in the gallery lift, with a pressure sensitive carpet, lift controls hacked to playback in order to hear a piece of music rendered in sound & light!
And coming up:
- Heard – BeatBox’n Bins of Luton Road – A new series of interactive public art works developed in partnership with The Ideas Test, local Communities of Chatham Kent and Kent County Council .
- Unseen – Welcome Trust Museum – New version of and interactive installation we created in collaboration with The Liminal Space in the Barbican working with Aging Science research.
- Holding The Gaze: A New Speaking AR-statue project (hush hush underwraps at mo but in development)
- Polling Booth of the Future – Development with Alliance Foundation Berlin. Creating a Modular system of Booths and working with local communities to build a fleet of these booths.
- HugBag 2.0 Redeveloping a new version of this lovely project for 2025 with a Science Festival
- Orchtecture 5.0 and OrchitectureXR (- hush hush under wraps for 2026)