Live piano performance of A. Scriabin's music with interactive visuals projected on the church walls marking the composer's anniversary.

Dedicated to A. Scriabin: 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of composer’s death and the 155th anniversary of his birth.

Pre-concert talk:

• Prof. Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Lab, Oxford University

• Prof. Eric Clarke, Music & Consciousness, Oxford University

• Prof. Mads Haahr, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin

Piano: Dr Svetlana Rudenko, Trinity College Dublin

Produced and sponsored by Haunted Planet Studios

Following a concert of Scriabin’s music with visuals projected to the unpainted wall, which took place in St Barnabas Church and affectionately remembered by Prof. Charles Spence from his student years, we bring Mixed Reality immersive interactive experience with a following program:

- A. Scriabin Sonata N5 Op. 53, visuals by Dr Maura McDonnell

- A. Scriabin, Five Preludes Op. 74 Mixed Reality (MR)

- S. Rachmaninoff, Preludes Op. 32 N1-5 and N10 MR

- S. Rudenko, “De Chirico: Metaphysical Art MR”

- S. Rudenko, Alice Dali MR: “The Pool of Tears”, “Who Stole the Tarts?” and “Alice’s Evidence” by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

The figure of the Russian symbolist composer Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) has held a mysterious fascination to this day. At the turn of the 20th century, the Mystic Symbolist movement was in full bloom, and Scriabin was hailed as a visionary. His synesthesia inspired his vision of unity of arts, where music, visuals, pantomime, movement and essence to create a multisensory performance.

It was Scriabin’s life ambition to create a multisensory drama capable of transforming the consciousness of the human mind through an act of theurgy. By inserting a colour organ in his poem Prometheus, he wanted to make harmony more evident with coloured light. Scriabin developed a new approach to the principles of harmony by considering a broader concept of temperament, dual modality mode, and was precursor of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone serialism and Messiaen’s modes of limited transpositions. His late piano miniatures, Opuses 71, 73, and 74, are considered to be sketches for the Preparatory Act of Mysterium, Scriabin’s final unfinished multisensory drama, for which he wrote a verbal narrative.

In this concert, we will realise Scriabin’s vision one more time in the space where it took place in the 1983. The piano and live visuals with the latest Mixed Reality technology will create a lavish multisensory experience. It is symbolic that the technology today allows us to fulfil Scriabin’s vision. MR visuals by Haunted Planet Studios, collaborative design by S. Rudenko, M. Haahr and X. Fu (programming)

Scriabin Sonata N5 https://vimeo.com/337354023

Alice Dali MR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5McCSCa26I

More about Music Consciousness and Mixed Reality: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-10518-9_31

“Exploring Dreaming with Mixed Reality” (DreaMR) 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. 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.

Overview

Meet the authors! A mobile phone app brings Lewis Carroll’s much-loved book to life in the Botanic Garden on Durham’s South Road.

Alice watched the white rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling
very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they
haven’t got much evidence yet,” she said to herself. Imagine her
surprise when the white rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill
little voice, the name “Alice!”

In 1969, Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was commissioned by Random House to illustrate a small, exclusive edition of Lewis Carrol’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865). Dalí painted 12 images for 12 chapters of the book. In this app, Dr Svetlana Rudenko composed on Art images of Dalí and Prof. Mads Haahr narrated the text. The app places the 12 art, music and story encounters in Durham Botanic Garden geographically using augmented reality and lets you find them in an exciting art and music treasure hunt. The app is produced by Haunted Planet Studios.

Meet the White Rabbit, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and all the other characters, and get to know the Art of Salvador Dalí for children. Alice Dalí AR is fun for families. Take augmented reality photos of the Dalí paintings in your location.

The event and the app are free. Entrance to the Botanic Garden is £5 for adults and free for Durham University Campus Card Holders and for children (16 years and under). Full details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/things-to-do/venues/botanic-garden/visit/tickets-and-times/#d.en.1229121

Svetlana Rudenko, piano
Kelly Jakubowski, violin
Mads Haahr (narration, Meta Quest 3)

Following their MUSICON debut in 2023, DreaMR (Dreaming with Mixed Reality) by Haunted Planet Studios return to Durham with their dizzying fusion of art, music and consciousness science.

Their new programme features two sets, ‘The Persistence of Memory & Alice Dali 2 MR’ and ‘Psychogeography with E. Ravilious AR’, engaging with the human experience of dreaming using cutting-edge Mixed Reality (MR), approaching dreaming like surrealist paintings: experiences that reside halfway between the visible and the invisible.

Real-time visuals from Meta Quest 3 will be projected on screen in a simultaneous performance with piano and violin, including music by Prokofiev, Butterworth and Rudenko.

Tickets: £10 standard, £5 students, £1 under-18s

Explore Art, Music, and Science with an AR Walk in the Park

Register Now on Eventbrite!

Haunted Planet will host an Augmented Reality workshop in the Botanic Gardens of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in association with the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS).

This workshop will showcase Haunted Planet’s “Synaesthesia Gallery 2 AR” experience, featuring 12 episodes of music art soundscapes inspired by synesthesia’s cross-modal perception on a walk in the park. In a treasure hunt for music and art, the Haunted Planet team invites you to learn about the creativity of cross-modal perception and synesthesia. You'll follow the radar on your smartphone to find AR music art encounters and collect them into your casebook. Make sure to have your smartphone charged!

Please note this interactive experience will start from the Friend Gate, located near Martin Luther King Drive.

You will be provided the instructions for how to play. The 60 Eventbrite arrivals will be given a promo code to download the app for free (normally priced at $6.99).

This event is presented in collaboration with the International Association of Synesthetes, Artists and Scientists (IASAS). Learn more about the IASAS and other related events here.

The workshop will also feature a scientific talk by creative director and CEO Haunted Planet Studios Prof. Mads Haahr, Dr. Svetlana Rudenko, and Carolyn CC Hart, an artist, neurodiversity advocate, and secretary of IASAS.

Our motivation

Provoked by numerous art-less walks during the pandemic, Haunted Planet Studios launched a series of location-based Augmented Reality experiences under the umbrella “OpenAirGallery AR”.

This services uses a smartphone-based locative media platform to display digital galleries and music albums in an interactive format.

About the App

Following the launch of “Synaesthesia Gallery AR: Journey through the Senses” 2021 at Trinity College Dublin for Brain Awareness Week (with funding award by Dana Foundation and Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), "Synaesthesia Gallery 2 AR" app features creative synaesthesia experiences crafted in art and music: painted, composed or experienced. Synaesthesia is a wiring of the brain that is characterised by cross-modal perceptions.

In addition to perceiving stimulus in one sensory modality, e. g. sound/ music, synesthetes may perceive an additional quality to the experience in a secondary modality – a colour, or smell, or feeling. Many synesthetes use their cross- sensory experiences as creative inspirations.

Our previous research results showed a high level of interest in the genre of AR gallery games and the promising social benefits of cooperative cultural play, educational, and great aesthetic experience for individuals interested in art and music.

The app features works of scientists and artists who work with synaesthesia research, music, or art, or both: Michael Havercamp, Karin Olesen, Timothy Layden, Svetlana Rudenko, Christine Söffing, Dolores Montijano, Carol Steen, CC Hart, Carrie Firman, Ninghui Xiong, Greta Berman, Geri Hahn, M. K. Ciurlionis, Richard Roche, and Mads Haahr.

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.

To get free tickets, see the Eventbrite page here.

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

Haunted Planet visited collegues and students of the CREATE Lab (The Consortium for Research and Evaluation of Advanced Technologies in Education) at NYU to launch the "Geri Hahn Art: Living Out Loud AR" app. This event was part of the 2024 ECT Fall Brownbag Speaker Series and included a talk with Geri Hahn., the New Jersey-based artist featured in the app.

“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.