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The Sancho Plan was a London-based Arts Collective creating Live Musical-Visual Performances and Exhibitions featuring Audience Immersion. Primarily active from 2005 to 2011, their works included commissions by Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, Arts Council England, Addictive TV, and Microsoft.[1][2][3]
They were also the lead artist on Martyn Ware's Future of Sound tour from 2007 to 2009.[4]
The Sancho Plan combined music and sound design, graphic and character design, animation, game design and coding, hardware, software, performance and theatrical staging to create audiovisual art environments and live musical performances. Their work featured in major arts and music festivals around the world, including The Big Chill, Burning Man, Ars Electronica, Scopitone, and a performance with Jaron Lanier at Microsoft's Imagine 2011.[5][6]
Notable works
[edit]Spacequatica (2007)
[edit]Initially developed as a 12-minute live performance for Martyn Ware's Future of Sound tour, but then expanded into an interactive immersive art installation for festivals and galleries including SIGGRAPH, Incheon international Digital Art Festival , Science Museum London, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Science Centre Singapore, Ars Electronica, Kuindzhi Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Tyneside Cinema, Cornerhouse.
Jungle Imperator (2008)
[edit]Jungle Imperator was an immersive interactive art experience that launched in 2009 in the Ars Electronica Centre in Austria. It was situated inside a new bespoke “VR Theatre”, an auditorium that featured 16m x 9m Ultra-HD resolution imagery on the wall and floor, surround audio, and active 3D stereo.
In part a collaboration with the renowned musicians Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister of Tosca (band), it featured rich surrealist Computer-generated imagery inspired by Max Ernst to create an interactive visual and musical experience in which "players" control a cast of animated musical characters.[7][8]
The Black Page (2009)
[edit]In The Black Page, The Sancho Plan's onstage band controlled a cast of interactive animated characters through a narrative musical adventure. The Sancho Plan's Director Ed Cookson called The Black Page their "first true interactive short film and by far [their] most ambitious project to date."[9] Funded by Arts Council England, it premiered at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle UK on 24th September 2009.[10]
Personnel
[edit]- Ed Cookson - Founder / Director / Music
- Olly Venning - Lead Artist
- Edward Dawson-Taylor - CG Lead
- Adam Hoyle - Programming
- Bruno Mathez - AV Manager / Production Assistant
- Ian Steele - Hardware
- Nick Sweetman - Original 2D Design
Performers:
- Joel Farland
- Bernie Gardner
- Pete Gardner
- Lewis Sykes
- Ed Cookson
- Ben Bryant
- Oli Blake
- John Blease
- Si Francis
- Adam Clifford
References
[edit]- ^ "Tour Dates". The Sancho Plan. 2011.
- ^ "Cybersonica Soundwaves". audiocommander. 2007.
- ^ "Augmented Reality: big screen by Sancho Plan". Wired. 2010.
- ^ "The Future of Sound According to Martyn Ware". Dazed. 2009.
- ^ "The Big Chill line-up". BBC. 2006.
- ^ "The Jaron Lanier rollercoaster". Microsoft. 2011.
- ^ "the sancho plan". estudio. 2014.
- ^ "BioBlox". Goldsmiths College. 2009.
- ^ "Zappa Meets Dali". Kill Ugly Radio. 2009.
- ^ "Different drummers". Fired by Design. 2009.