Virtual reality & video

Audiovisual spaces of experience, rethought

Virtual reality (360° VR)

Seeing sound – hearing space

When image and sound become one, new audiovisual spaces of experience open up.

Cybele Studio on the road – St. Agnus Kirche in Köthen during a 360-degree live video production (virtual reality)

Several Nokia OZO cameras are available for 360° VR productions.

What is possible:

360° video
up to 8K UHD (stereoscopic)
integrated spatial audio
replacement by high-resolution external soundtracks
stereo, 3D binaural stereo or Ambisonics

The result is immersive music productions in which the audience does not merely watch and listen, but takes part in the space.

Hauptkirche St. Michaelis Hamburg (“Michel”) live – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Plaudite tympana, motet for 53 voices (8K UHD VR video)

Hauptkirche St. Michaelis Hamburg (“Michel”) live – Georg Muffat: Sonata No. 5 from “Armonico tributo” (8K UHD VR video)

More VR videos

Hauptkirche St. Michaelis Hamburg (“Michel”) live – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Missa Salisburgensis (8K UHD VR video)

Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal live – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major op. 48 for strings | Junge Talente (4K UHD VR video)

Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal live – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme | Junge Talente (4K UHD VR video)

Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal live – Hans Abrahamsen: Piano Concerto | Junge Talente (4K UHD VR video)

Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal live – Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Un petit rien (1964) | Junge Talente (4K UHD VR video)

St. Agnuskirche Köthen live – J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001–1006), arr. for viola (Adagio from Sonata No. 1) (4K UHD VR video with Ambisonic 3D sound experience)

St. Agnuskirche Köthen live – J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001–1006), arr. for viola (Allemanda from Partita No. 2) (4K UHD VR video with Ambisonic 3D sound experience)

St. Agnuskirche Köthen live – J. S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas (BWV 1001–1006), arr. for viola (Fuga from Sonata No. 1) (4K UHD VR video with Ambisonic 3D sound experience)

Concert hall of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Wuppertal department – clarinet and piano duo – Neoteric CD release trailer – Poulenc (4K UHD VR video with Ambisonic 3D sound experience)

Concert hall of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Wuppertal department – clarinet and piano duo – Neoteric CD release trailer – Reger (4K UHD VR video with Ambisonic 3D sound experience)

Cybele Studio on the road – complex audiovisual live production with VR video (360 degrees) on the organ gallery of St. Michaelis Hamburg (performers: Chor St. Michaelis Hamburg, Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by Jörg Endebrock) with Heinrich Ignaz von Biber’s monumental Missa Salisburgensis for 53 voices, one of the most extraordinary works in European music history.

Complex audiovisual live production with VR video (360 degrees) on the organ gallery of St. Michaelis Hamburg (performers: Chor St. Michaelis Hamburg, Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by Jörg Endebrock) with Heinrich Ignaz von Biber’s monumental Missa Salisburgensis for 53 voices

Conventional video recordings

Sound meets image

Audiovisual productions with a musical understanding

Cybele AV Studios also produces conventional concert films and music videos.

With up to eight Sony 4K Ultra HD cameras we produce:

concert films
portrait formats
live recordings
streaming productions

The focus is always on a visual language that matches the music. A sensitive, musical edit binds image and sound into a single narrative: camera angles, movements and cutting rhythms follow musical structures, phrasing and the emotional development of a performance.

In classical music above all, there is a wide gulf between a purely documentary recording and an audiovisual realisation that genuinely conveys the musical statement, the atmosphere of the moment and the artistic interpretation.

Concertgebouw Amsterdam (June 28, 2021): Mendelssohn – Fantaisies ou Caprices Op 16. No. 2 “Scherzo” (Kasper Schonewille)

Concertgebouw Amsterdam (June 28, 2021): Mendelssohn – Fantaisie Op. 28 “Sonate écossaise” I. Andante (Kasper Schonewille)