Designer Dan Tobin Smith and creative studio The Experience Machine, in partnership with Gemfields, presented VOID; a multi-sensory spatial installation at Collins Music Hall, Islington. For London Design Festival in 2019, NYX created an immersive sonic world for the installation as well as performing the score live for a deep listening concert for audiences.

Visitors were part of an immersive experience, travelling through a series of large-scale projections that showcased the expanded space inside gemstones and mapped the blurring boundaries between nature and design.

The installation considered the concept of containment and scale, employing spatial design to explore the natural borders formed within these unique mineral formations.

By translating moving image into a contained physical form and scoring the experience with harmonised layers of the human voice – by NYX – visitors were invited to enter within the portrait of a gemstone’s natural inclusion.

Following the installation, VOID was released as NYX’s premiere track on NYX Collective Records on Oct 31st 2019. VOID has been featured on BBC 6 Recommends, Rinse FM, It’s Nice That and Dazed.

https://www.londondesignfestival.com/event/void

photo credit: El Hardwick