Projects
Thenix Sound Foundation
Thenix Sound Foundation
We are creating a prototype sound world for a live immersive version of JG Ballard’s THE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY.
Designing a mobile sound system where music and soundscape meld as the primary narrative force (before words/visuals/performers come into play) we will cocoon an in-the-round audience within a sonic dome of spatial sound, object-based audio and extreme low frequencies, creating an inescapable group sound dream.
Experiment
£20,000
Meet the artists
Nick Sweeting – Thenix Sound Foundation
Lead artist / Producer
he/him
Thenix Sound Foundation is a new collective creating live dramatic work that imagines sound first.
Highly experienced producer, writer, director and composer come together for the first time to explore the narrative possibilities of encircling an audience inside a dub sound system and creating a whole world through ambience, ambisonics and extreme sound pressure.
Nick Sweeting is an independent producer with 35 years of experience. He has worked with a wide range of creative collectives over that time including Improbable, 59 Productions, dreamthinkspeak, Javaad Alipoor and Limbic Cinema.
Nick Vivian
Co-creator / Lead Creative / Writer
he/him
NICK VIVIAN is an Oscar and BAFTA nominated screenwriter. He is also co-creator of Cotton Panic! for the Manchester International Festival 2017: the site-specific piece used live performance, dance, film and modern Industrial (electronic) music to tell the historic Industrial story of the Cotton Famine in Lancashire in the 1850s.
Gazelle Twin
Co-Creator / Composer / Musician
Elizabeth Bernholz
Gazelle Twin is a musician and producer whose work ranges from electronic music to soundtracks for film, TV and installation.
Her previous experience with making Spatial Audio work includes the theatre production Robin/Red/Breast (Manchester Aviva Studios, 2024) and the installation “We wax. We Shall Not Wane” for The Horror Show! at Somerset House (2022).
