Projects
The KVB – Deep End
The KVB – Deep End
This AV/VR artwork will be a fully immersive landscape created using Unity game engine, and reflects the 'dystopian love pop song' lyrics/themes of the song 'Deep End', taken from our most recent album 'Tremors', which was released on indie label 'Invada Records' last year.
The navagatable landscape will be explored virtually in a first person perspective by the audiences worldwide, either with or without a VR headset. It will have interactive elements/objects within to create a collaborative and engaging experience for the audience.
Explore
£5000
Aims of the project
- Explore capabilities of these technologies to engage new audiences by researching how to create interactive elements or objects within the game, which are ideally percussive or synth sound based, so that audiences can collaborate and ‘jam’ musically by completing digital actions within the AV/VR artwork. I will work collaboratively with the other half of the KVB
(Nick Wood) to create the sound elements for the interactive digital objects. - Learn and explore potential of VR headsets and the fully immersive nature of this technology to create more hapticworks for audiences and engage their senses in a digital world.
- Allow me to have the time to learn new coding skills for game mechanics and virtual reality, experiment creatively with building interactive elements and testing.
- Expand on skills learnt during my previous game engine project ( Live in Dreamspace), in which we performed using 3D Microsoft Azure Kinect depth sense cameras as point cloud particles in virtual environment ‘stages’. This previous workwas filmed and broadcast during covid 19 lockdown.
- Develop coding skills with game engines to make the VR artwork interactive which could lead to commissions or artistic collaborations in the future, leading to a more diverse sustainable art practice.
Meet the artist
Kat Day
Lead artist
she/her
Kat is one half of the post-punk/shoegaze/electronic Audio Visual duo ‘The KVB’ originally formed in London and now based in Manchester. They are currently signed to Bristol-based indie lable Invada Records and have released 11 albums and 4 EPs since 2011.
Past performances include headline shows/festivals in 46 countries across the world such as China, USA and Australia and renowned festivals such as Primavera Sound, Green Man, Sziget, Desert Daze, Latitude and more.
