The Speakers
Digital Tech / Outdoors / Participatory / Project / Public Space / Site-Specific / Touring/able
to walk within
of gathering
sound and agency
Aswarm transforms places, to enable the people that use them to play, contemplate and re-evaluate their agency within them.
Our audiences are the active agents that bring the work to life.
– Directed by artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie.
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We are a company that draws on creative use of Sound, Digital Technology, Immersive Installation, Site-Specifics and Concept to make art, politics and play happen where it matters.
A collaborative team of experts that work with artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie to develop, experiment and create things none of us can create alone.
“Sound has an incredible ability to play with it’s context and it’s this relationship between the intangible and physical realm’s that really fascinates me. – It can change how a space functions, inject life into objects or carry a person in thin-air, it exists in time & perception. And so what we do is create interventions and ’scenarios’ that invite people to explore, participate and become the active agents that complete the circle.”
Bridging the
tactile – spatial – sonic – digital
with people
We transform places to enable people that use them to contemplate, play and revaluate their agency within them.
Our audiences are the active agents that bring the work to life.
– Directed by artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie.
more
We are a company that draws on creative use of Sound, Digital Technology, Immersive Installation, Site-Specifics and Concept to make art, politics and play happen where it matters.
A collaborative team of experts that work with artist Thor McIntyre-Burnie to develop, experiment and create things none of us can create alone.
“Sound has an incredible ability to play with it’s context and it’s this relationship between the intangible and physical realm’s that really fascinates me. – It can change how a space functions, inject life into objects or carry a person in thin-air, it exists in time & perception. And so what we do is create interventions and ’scenarios’ that invite people to explore, participate and become the active agents that complete the circle.”
Voice Park
Digital Tech / Outdoors / Participatory / Performance / Project / Public Space / Science / Art / Site-Specific / Touring/able
Threads of the Unsaid
Digital Tech / Mobile / Outdoors / Participatory / Project / Public Space / Site-Specific / Touring/able
Night Club
Digital Tech / Participatory / Project / Science / Art / Site-Specific / Sound Design / Touring/able
What we’re up to
Arbores Vocalis _short video
Finally cut a short video from Arbores Vocalis. A commission Thor McB worked on through the lockdown’s of 2021, drawn from 100 interviews and recordings dispersed local choirs. Installed as a
02 April, 2022Holding The Flame Launch Event 22nd Sept
Really excited to be finally holding a public launch of Holding The Flame, an AR-Statue for Brixton. It’s taken best par of a year to build the relationships and negotiations & technologica
21 September, 2022Holding the Flame preview article: Independent
Delighted to share a sneaky preview of Holding the Flame in The Independent Newspaper. -Our new Augmented Reality Statues project, created for Brixton as part of 81Acts of Exuberant Defiance, commemor
26 August, 2021Songstreets – coming soon to Brixton
SONGSTREETS An immersive audio walk through the streets & culture of Brixton. The latest site-specific AR -Experience from Aswarm XR Really Excited to be putting finishing touches to this new App
01 February, 2023Vocalis Arbores
Despite the Lockdown, Aswarm’s AD Thor McB has been working on a new commission for Lesness Abbey, london. – Recording a disparate choir* of individual voices recorded online singing a new
22 June, 2021Vocalis Arbores – Lights up Lesness Abbey
Nov 17th: We presented Vocalis Arbores to a brilliant audience of 7000 punters braving the cold for the 1 mile ‘Light The Way’ light walk at Thamesmead, London. Postponed from March Due to
10 December, 2021
Acoustic art and industrial architecture make music ..and since no one is going to build cathedral-like spaces for artists like Thor McIntyre to play in, all the more reason to open up derelict and disused industrial spaces to artistic exploration
‘BEST TEMPORARY INSTALLATION’ Award Winner 2015
For that one night, something transforming happened. As young people gazed transfixed, Lyn knew that their image of Woolwich High Street would never be the same again. It was Aswarm’s “Gather” : a commission by Without Walls
THE SPEAKERS has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts.... momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life
like the sort of otherworldly space Andrei Tarkovsky conjured in his film Stalker. Much credit must go to McIntyre-Burnie’s installation, which conditions visitors to approach the space more carefully
The Speakers was the talking point of the Biennale
It all hung on the extraordinary sounds captured by Chris Watson and Thor M-B, 10 years ago
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