We are thrilled to announce that Immortelle has been selected as part of the official competition for Annecy (Animation Festival) 2023.
Discover the interview: The VR artwork Immortelle is touring the world. It’s been shown at an animation film festival, several music festivals, a music documentary festival, and a digital art biennale.
It’s versatile, it’s colourful, it’s emotional.
“I want to shake up the viewer, I want to disorient them, for them to lose grip on what’s going on (…) it’s part of Immortelle’s essence”
- Line Katcho\
UPDATED BUILD
A new build is available with several bug fixes and improved optimizations.
THE IMMORTELLE EFFECT
To translate the sense of intimate and vulnerable reflection, Line Katcho plays with volumetric and spatial boundaries. To reach the viewer’s body, she uses fast-paced rhythms. Cinematic soundscapes tie everything together, aligning physical sensation, sensorial perception, and headset experience.
Let us know any feedback in the comments and don’t forget to leave us a review on the page!
- The MUTEK team
IRL Exhibition and Winter Sale
In the last few weeks, we have presented Immortelle and the other pieces of the Immersive Collection at multiple events:
To thank you for your support we are participating in the Steam Winter Sale by offering you 15% on the purchase of Immortelle ! Take advantage of it before January 5th (1pm EST)
Keep following us, the next releases are coming soon... so see you next year!
IMMORTELLE — OUT NOW
We are thrilled to announce the release of Immortelle. Bringing this performance back to life in Virtual Reality has been a real challenge and we are proud to share it with you all today.
This 6DOF artwork is the brainchild of an artist and an electronic music festival who have conscientiously brought to life an audiovisual performance in VR. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
In your turn, discover intense upheavals and approach immortality.
Give us your thoughts in the comments and don’t forget to leave us a review on the page! We are here for any issues or questions, so don’t hesitate to write to us in the community hub.
MUTEK Dev.
Sneak peek before the launch
Immortelle is about to launch! Are you ready to travel through different scenes and seasons? This cinematic, non-game experience is designed to bring something new to VR: the emotion of a live show, reinvented for headsets, produced by an electronic music festival.
We can't wait to share this experience!
Immortelle carries the viewer in a cathartic 6DOF trip, illustrating the flights and falls of psychological endurance. It is a personal story told in a fast-paced flux of sound and visuals. Can you hold on?
Find it on November 15th at 12am PST, 3am EST, 9am CET for the official release!
Want to learn more?
Based on a live show by composer Line Katcho, Immortelle is an audiovisual live that has been presented at MUTEK Festival in 2018. Since then, it’s toured around the world, from Germany to Japan, recently rekindling in South Korea. And today? It is transformed into a VR artwork.
First prototype viewing
These three VR artworks come straight the Festival world. So with MUTEK Festival launching soon, our pre-event conference was the occasion for a few community members to exclusively test out the works, and for the developers and artists to see public reactions for the first time.
Next public showcases from August 23 to 26 during MUTEK Montreal
More info
After this first public test, several fixes are to come:
Audio
Adjustment of the audio fades
Finetuning low frequencies
Finetuning sound levels and spatialization
Visual
Polishing visual objects
Sequencing of scenes
Correction of display defects and resolution problems
Environment
Audio tracking
Video tracking
Motion detection
Other
Adjustment of the sound level to fit a busy space (optimized for public demonstrations for galleries and/or festivals)
MUTEK launches the Immersive Collection
Over the past 23 years, MUTEK has gained worldwide recognition as a festival presenting cutting-edge audiovisual performances — works that innovate to create a new language of sound and images. MUTEK’s latest project, the Immersive Collection, opens up a new chapter for the organization, marking its first steps as an extended reality (XR) content producer.
Five artists have stepped up to the challenge of reinventing shows previously performed at the festival into an XR artwork. Each artist was selected due to the acclaim of their original performance, their complementary sources of expertise and their willingness to experiment. The result is an eclectic yet coherent set of three different XR projects ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho.
Not documentary nor classic fiction, not concert nor game, these works defy traditional genres and define a new category of audiovisual XR experiences that are deployed from original concepts, non-traditional narratives and advanced digital creation tools. They combine abstract and figurative interpretations, spatialized sound design, radiant visuals and the playful and persevering mindsets of artists venturing into new grounds.
Published by MUTEK on several online content stores, starting with Steam, the Immersive Collection will also join the catalog of Astrea, the largest international distributor of immersive productions, and be presented at select festivals and spaces worldwide.
MUTEK acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
