Close Your Eyes and Count Backwards from Ten

In the pre-standardisation Wild West of early ambisonic surround, we managed to hack together an immersive soundscape and score from the POV of inside the cockpit of a futuristic machine work terminal.

In a future dominated by AI-run corporations, an accountant finds herself trapped in the cult of productivity. To keep up, she undergoes a radical merger of mind and machine. In Merger, we see—and hear—her last moments as a human and her transition onto another plain.

In the early days of ambisonics, working with immersive 360-degree audio was a pioneering endeavour. Through extensive research and experimentation, we developed techniques to create an ambisonic 360 binaural mix that responds to the viewer's head movements.

 

We’d collaborated with Keiichi a few times before (and we have many times since) and had a proven track record for delivering creativity through technical challenges.

Merger is viewable in Oculus Rift VR, Youtube 360, and Facebook 360.

Music and Sound

Skillbard

Ambisonic Mix

Skillbard

Directed by

Keiichi Matsuda