Dreamer is an immersive participatory performance where an audience member is invited to embark on a dream-like journey through many impossible spaces made of sound only. There, they will be accompanied by an invisible ‘ghost’ (a live performer), and only to find out that the space, the ghost and themselves are the reflections of one inseparable existence.

Dreamer is the result of a collaborative project created during a residency in the Innovation:Lab of Theater Utrecht. In this period, we brought together a multidisciplinary team of performer, researcher, creative technologist, musician and developed a sonic VR platform for creating immersive and interactive audio performances.

It starts with an idea...

... to countless discussions and prototypes ...

A work-in-progress video documentation:

... to the final performance.

As it was a one-person experience, we invited other audience members to listen along through silent disco headsets and watch the participant through our monitor.

Dreamer was presented at the Makers Festival 2022 of and was created with Lieke van der Vegt (performer, artist), Jelger Kroese (creative technologist), Roland Smeenk (creative technologist), Baulk Moerman (sound design and engineer).