Raw Space Chamber
The immersive museum experience
2018The Story
The Raw Space Chamber tells the story of Raw Space – the world’s first live 360° AR stream – in its new immersive, portable incarnation. Inside this gilded chamber, installed by Getov and Steely and wrapped in NASA-grade Mylar linking to Wolfe’s Raw Space Beam and Project Echo, visitors can immerse themselves in a truly magical and ceremonial listening experience, while AR animations bring the album’s artwork and lyrics to life in real-time via a vintage coin-operated binoculars (converted into a VR/AR headset) viewport and spinning vinyl.
The Raw Space Chamber was produced in collaboration with Bell Labs. It’s first presentation was at the LA Times Festival before being installed in the V&A for Beatie’s solo exhibition.
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Raw Space Chamber (2018)
The immersive museum experience
The Raw Space Chamber tells the story of Raw Space – the world’s first live 360° AR stream – in its new immersive, portable incarnation. Inside this anechoic chamber (wrapped in NASA-grade Mylar linking to Wolfe’s Raw Space Broadcast), visitors can immerse themselves in a magical and ceremonial listening experience, watching the record come to life via a vintage coin-operated viewport (converted into a VR/AR headset)
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![A still taken from Beatie Wolfe's world first live 360 AR stream to launch her third album Raw Space and simultaneously reboot E.A.T.]()
World’s First 360° AR Livestream (2017)
Raw Space
Raw Space was released as the world’s first live 360 AR experience and ‘anti-stream’. Combining live 360 stereoscopic video of Wolfe’s physical record stream from the quietest room on earth, with real-time AR animations, the effect was a Fantasia-like live-streamed album, which ran continuously for a week with artwork that evolved every time the record spun. “With ‘Raw Space’, I wanted to create the anti-stream for our current streaming generation and really celebrate the world of the album – its artwork, arc, narrative, music – in a ceremonial and absorbing way that makes the listener feel like they’ve been transported into the world of the album, like I did opening up a record as a kid.” Wolfe follows in the footsteps of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg as a collaborator of Bell Labs’ E.A.T. programme
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![A still from old news footage depicting the first phone call via out of space from JPL in California to this Holmdel Horn in New Jersey.]()
The Space Broadcast (2018 + 2025)
The rawest sound in the Raw Space
Following its launch from the quietest room in the world, Raw Space was beamed into space via the historic Holmdel Horn Antenna, which was used to prove the validity of the Big Bang theory. Nobel Prize winning scientist Dr Robert Wilson (who discovered Cosmic Background Radiation) made the first update to this Historic National Landmark in 50 years to make sure the music of Raw Space got past the earth's atmosphere and into outer space. The Raw Space Broadcast was not the studio version of the album, but the raw anechoic version (no reverb, EQ or audio enhancements) recorded in the Bell Labs Anti-echo Chamber – Wolfe’s idea being that for the first time, raw anechoic sound would enter raw space as a true reflection of our humanity at a time of increased airbrushing, auto-tuning and AI
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Victoria and Albert Museum
Retrospective of Artist’s Work
The V&A Museum invited Beatie Wolfe to hold a solo exhibition of her world’s first designs for music in the digital age, which range from a theatre for the palm of your hand, a wearable album jacket, an ‘anti-stream’ from the world’s quietest room and a Space beam from the Big Bang Horn
Solo Exhibition: 2018
