As part of the Southbank Centre’s Mutitudes Festival 2026, the evening was an intriguing collaboration between the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Queen Elizabeth Hall’s  ‘Concrete Voids’ audio spatialisation system and Squidsoup.

The event played with time, using 16^th Century melodies, reinterpreted by 20^th century composers (Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Warlock) and performed in an environment prominently featuring 21^st Century technology – both the spatialised sound amplification and augmentation system, and our own volumetric lighting.

Katherine ‘Waffy’ Spencer, artistic lead at the OAE, memorably called the event a ‘16^th Century rave’.

The complexity and subtleties of these often dense and multi-layered classical pieces gradually revealed themselves as we worked to fuse the sounds and compositions with our digitally controlled 3D volumetric light system.

A very different challenge to previous work with Four Tet, improvising with dance DJs or our installation work, it’s been a revelatory exercise in seeing the visuals we create in a new setting.

Performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, 22 April 2026