Developing new ways to experience sound, unlocking personalised experiences and augmenting real-world spaces.
The Audience of the Future Demonstrator Programme is a collaboration between UK creative industry specialists, working to discover the next innovation in immersive performance.
Both Punchdrunk and Punchdrunk Enrichment have been collaborating with technologists and creatives on three key areas:
Environmental Sound Design
Developing new ways to experience sound in a three-dimensional environment. Supported by EM Acoustics.
Audience Tracking
Using technology to unlock personalised experiences for large audiences.
Standalone Effect Control
Building an affordable, standalone system that can augment real-world spaces with theatrical effects including sound and lighting.
The programme is funded within the Audience of the Future programme by UK Research and Innovation through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Led by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), the consortium includes Punchdrunk and Punchdrunk Enrichment, De Montfort University, Epic Games, i2 Media Research Limited, Intel, Magic Leap, Manchester International Festival, Marshmallow Laser Feast, Nesta, Phi Centre, Philharmonia Orchestra, University of Portsmouth and The Space.
The Programme was due to finish in 2020 but due to the disruption caused by Covid-19 has been extended until the end of 2021.
Find out more at audienceofthefuture.live.
Creative Team
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Felix Barrett
Artistic Director -
Peter Higgin
Director of Enrichment & Punchdrunk Village -
Roz Coleman
Producer -
Alex Rowse and Stephen Makin
Producers -
Andy Reader
Production Manager -
Joel Scott
Creative Lead (Phase 2) -
Rory Muldoon
Game and Graphic Design (Phase 2) -
Kat Heath
Design (Phase 2) -
Soph Porter
Associate Producer (Phase 2) -
Ian Moore
Production Manager (Phase 2) -
Dominic Baker
Network & Deputy Production Manager (Phase 2) -
Tristan Grant
Machines Design (Phase 2) -
Alex Neirdert
Production Accountant
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Environmental Sound Composition
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Featuring specially created recordings of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by André de Ridder -
Supported by EM Acoustics -
Stephen Dobbie
Co-Sound Designer -
Salvador Garza
Co-Sound Designer -
Colin Nightingale
Creative Producer -
Viktor Palfi
Head of Sound -
Sarah Readman
Head of Lighting & Lighting Design -
Andy Reader & Sarah Readman
Production Managers -
Amy Pitt
Designer
Effect Control
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Michele Panegrossi
Creative Technologist -
Martelle Hunt
Design Associate -
Freya Barlow
Design Associate -
Ben Hosford and Sam Clear
Production Managers
Tracking Audiences
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Elgiva Field
Creative Lead -
Michelle McMahon
Creative Associate -
Steph Singer
Creative Associate -
Maïto Jobbé Duval
Designer -
Tim Burrell-Saward
Creative Technical Lead -
Henry Cooke
Creative Technologist -
Michele Panegrossi
Creative Technologist
Thanks to…
- Lauren Van Zyl, Rafe Aldridge, Sarah Ellis, Julia Walters, Shoreditch Town Hall, Sam Clear, Stephen Makin, Gareth Collins, Elgiva Field, Jess Banting, Sarah Goodfellow and all teams at Punchdrunk and Punchdrunk International.