Experience Dreaming through Mixed Reality Performance and Scientific Perspective

DreaMR, or “Exploring Dreaming with Mixed Reality”, engages with the human experience of dreaming through art, music, and consciousness science. Using cutting-edge Mixed Reality (MR), we approach dreaming like surrealist paintings: experiences that reside halfway between the visible and the invisible.

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MR technology is uniquely suited for this purpose, because it positions the audience not within a virtual world (like VR technology does) but in a liminal space that blends the real with the un-real, the conscious with the unconscious, the physical world with the world of dreams.

Fusing music, art and technology, this concert brings you into the world of dreaming with MR visuals projected to the screen.

Dr Svetlana Rudenko has composed music on the art of Salvador Dali, who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s iconic story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Carroll’s second book, as well as composing on the art of Giorgio De Chirico and others.

Xiangpeng Fu, PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, will perform alongside this music using the Meta Quest 3 Mixed Reality VR headset.

This event will also feature scientific talks by Prof. Charles Spence & Yang Gao from the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK, and from Prof. Mads Haahr, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

In the program:

• Amy Beach, Dreaming, op. 15 no.3 “You Speak to Me from the Depth of a Dream.”/epigraph by V. Hugo

• Surrealism in S. Prokofiev’s Sonata N4, Op. 29 and S. Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory” MR

• S. Rudenko, Alice Dali 2 MR, from Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking- glass and what Alice Found There”

• V. Kosenko Poem-Legend 2 Op.12 / J.B.Yeats Mixed Reality Scene: “Let There Be No More War”

• S. Rudenko, Geri Hahn Art MR (UK Premier)

• S. Rudenko, De Chirico: Metaphysical Art MR

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“Geri Hahn Art: Living Out Loud AR” is available now as a free download on Android and iOS.

Haunted Planet brought “Yokai: Japanese Ghosts”, its Music Art Augmented Reality (AR) game giving insights into the cultural diversity and history of Japan, to Dublin’s Baggotonia Festival 2024 as an AR workshop. Staged amidst the cherry blossoms and terrain of Herbert Park, in Dublin, Ireland, Haunted Planet placed AR encounters according to the terrain and locative qualities of the landscape to fit into the story.

“Yokai: Japanese Ghosts” is available for free download on smartphones at this link.

Yokai are supernatural entities and spirits from Japanese folklore. “Japan was a country and culture that existed between realms: the world of the everyday and the world of the supernatural” (The Snow Ghost and Other Tales, 2023). In this experience, you’ll immerse yourself in the art of Japanese Ukiyo-e masters and original music by Svetlana Rudenko. Follow the radar to find 10 music art encounters and collect them into your casebook to create your memories with a landscape.

Before our big concert at Whyte Recital Hall, we’re giving a little teaser for FREE at The United Arts Club Dublin on Friday, 26 th April, 7.30 pm, 3 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2.

See you there!

Haunted Planet launched “Yokai: Japanese Ghosts”, a Music Art Augmented Reality (AR) game giving insights into cultural diversity and history of Japan, to Dublin’s Herbert Park amidst the cherry blossoms in yearly bloom. Amidst the cherry blossoms and terrain of Herbert Park, Haunted Planet carefully placed AR encounters according to the terrain and locative qualities of the landscape to fit into the story.

You can find these encounters yourself on Android or iOS for free by downloading the game at this link.

Yokai are supernatural entities and spirits from Japanese folklore. “Japan was a country and culture that existed between realms: the world of the everyday and the world of the supernatural” (The Snow Ghost and Other Tales, 2023). Immerse yourself in the art of Japanese Ukiyo-e masters and original music by Svetlana Rudenko. Follow the radar to find 10 music art encounters and collect them into your casebook to create your memories with a landscape.