Projects
UN/VEIL
UN/VEIL
UN/VEIL is an immersive audiovisual installation that explores human choir, quantum, and spatial audio in a 360-degree dome, inviting audiences to transform the work using their voices as they explore themes of liberation and belonging through collective resonance.
Exploring liberation, belonging, and collective resonance. A major project for London Contemporary Voices’ 15th anniversary, UN/VEIL is rooted in the idea of deep listening as a catalyst for change and explores how marginalised voices can reclaim space and belonging.
Open to the general public at Plymouth Market Hall’s 360 dome across 4 days, it integrates human voice, ethical AI, quantum and spatial audio with live audience voices, transforming them into evolving choral soundscapes and Responsive 360 visuals.
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£50,000
Visitors contribute by speaking, singing, humming or whispering into microphones within the installation.
Aims of the project
Vocalisations from London Contemporary Voices’ and Trans Voices’ diverse community of professional singers will form a collaborative choral composition which will be used to train a Quantum system in partnership with MOTH.
The system generates a continuous live ever-evolving piece in real time. The same recordings will also be used to train ethical AI tone transfer models in collaboration with Neutone which transform visitors’ voices into the choir’s voices. Each visitor’s pathway through the installation shapes what is heard. They encounter voices shifting, echoing, and weaving around them, creating a moving, deeply personal and evolving sonic and visual environment. ensuring every encounter is unique.
Meet London Contemporary Voices
ILĀ
Lead Artist
she/they
Artist, producer, and vocalist ILĀ operates at the intersection of quantum computer music, AI hybrid, and human voice, crafting immersive sonic worlds that question identity and liberation.
As co-founder of both London Contemporary Voices and Trans Voices, the UK’s first professional trans+ choir, ILĀ creates works that celebrate collective resonance. They have been championed by BBC 6 music’s Nick Grimshaw and Mary Anne Hobbs. ILĀ served as guest curator and artist for the Barbican’s Transpose at the Pit and their installation UN/BOUND, made in collaboration with MONOM and TRANS VOICES was featured in the Barbican exhibition Feel the Sound.
Didier Rochard
Artist & Project Manager
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Artist, musician, creative producer and Co-Founder of London Contemporary Voices, Glasgow Voices and Belfast Voices.
James Gibbons Macgregor
Visual Artist
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Producer, engineer and audio-visual artist as well as associate lecturer at UAL Creative Computing Institute.
Coda Nicolaeff
Artist
she/her
Artist, vocalist and co-founder of Trans Voices.
Meg Ella
Artist
she/her
Artists, vocalist, musical director at London Contemporary Voices.
