About
Panoramical (2015) is a collection of playful interactive landscapes: part art installation, part musical instrument With a mixer board controller to manipulate visuals and sounds and no predefined goals, players find beautiful combinations of shapes and soundscapes, setting the pace of their own audiovisual journey The result is an immersive experience for players and spectators
Panoramical been featured in museums and exhibits worldwide, and released as a downloadable PC game.
- an interactive audiovisual experience projected on a screen and played with a mixer-style controller.
- Duration: Infinite play, regular playthrough 5-20 minutes
- Requirements: Projector, PC Computer, Korg nanoKONTROL controller, Headphones
Selected exhibitions
2025
‘Bozar Arcade’, BOZAR, Brussels
2018
‘Now Play This’, Somerset House, London
‘Gamebox’ Launch Event at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2017
‘The Ears Have Walls: A Survey of Sound Games’, VGA Gallery, Chicago
‘speaks, sounds, shakes’, Electromuseum, Moscow
2016
‘Independent Games Festival’, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco
‘ARCADE 11’, Art and Games Research Centre, Montreal
‘Sound Universe’, Struer Museum, Struer
2015
‘AZplay International Festival of Indie Games’, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles
Out Of Index Festival, Seoul
2014
XOXO, Portland, Oregon
‘Indie Game Revolution’, EMP Museum, Seattle
‘The Wild Rumpus’, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2013
‘Indiecade East’, Museum of Moving Image, New York
‘Ahhcade’, SF MoMa. San Francisco
Artists
Fernando Ramallo is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist from Argentina. He works with custom software to create immersive computer-based art. His playful interactive work sparks wonder and curiosity and has been on display at museums and festivals worlwide, including SF MoMA, SIGGRAPH and BOZAR.
David Kanaga is a composer from California Alongside game soundtracks, his works include the dog opera “Oikospiel” (2017), built with tools by Fernando Ramallo, and the unabridged MIDI deconstruction of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, “Soft Valkyrie” (2022), narrated by Stephen Fry, commissioned by Holland Festival, Staatsoper Hanover + Dutch National Opera.
Credits
- Design, Software, Visuals: Fernando Ramallo
- Design, Music: David Kanaga
- Collaborators: V Buckenham, Jukio Kallio, Baiyon, Matt Divito, Richard Flanagan, doseone, Brendan Byrne
Press
- Video Games For The Arts: PANORAMICAL
- Kill Screen: “Panoramical turns sound to magical color and back again”
- VICE: “The Zen Arcade Brings Meditative Gaming”
- Engadget: “Soothe your soul with ‘Panoramical,’ a game of musical manipulation”
- Boing Boing: “Panoramical will change the way you conceive of sound”
Awards
- Nominated for Grand Prize. AMAZE. Berlin. 2013.
- Winner of Best Sound Design. AZPlay Festival. Bilbao. 2015.
- Nominated for Best Audio, Nuovo Award and Best Visual Design. Independent Games Festival at the Games Developers Conference. San Francisco. 2016.
Video: What is PANORAMICAL?
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