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Andrew Hair is the creative genius behind ‘Symbiosis’, an open-world music game where the environment flourishes or withers in response to players’ choices. We at Loop.Coop have been working along similar lines with our Looptopia project, so it greatly excites us to find an artist who shares our outlook.

Andrew is a sound designer for games, art installations, audio-visual shows, and moving image, and recently graduated from Brighton Uni. “I’ve been intrigued by the development of music discovery/creation in game environments for a while now (I had a minor plug.dj addiction a few years ago!)”

Symbiosis is a visually stunning geometric landscape where gentle sounds shimmer and chime around the player. By gathering and planting seeds, the player can influence how the soundscape develops. This parallels ecosystems in the real world: “If the player chooses to neglect the world in favour of personal indulgence, the environment will respond with a desolate, dissonant soundscape. Conversely, if we neglect our own needs, we will struggle to even hear the world around us.”

‘Ouija Key’ is an audiovisual web app delight, which invites your fingers into a playful and addictive musical experience!

As you tickle, slam or scrub your keyboard, the screen fills with fluid visuals, synchronised to an array of electronic audio clips. Each sound rings with atmospheric swooshes and buzzes, organic and synthesised, mysterious and alluring. The animations flurry with graphic sophistication, beautifully overlapping each other and building a wonderfully satisfying experience. At Loop.Coop we love how accessible and inviting this app is. It screams to be interacted with!

An excellent addition to the app is live collaboration between multiple players. Groups of friends can jam together in real time in virtual private ‘rooms’.

Behind Ouija Key is Josh Humphris, a brilliant sound and visual artist who we discovered at the Brighton Uni end-of-year show in May. His previous work includes the EP ‘Moses Jam/Infinity Loop’, released in 2014 — two tracks which shimmer with beautifully indulgent sounds.

Kate Jefferies and India Scrimgeour are two recent graduates from Brighton University with powerful skills in design, art direction and photography. Together, they’ve produced an exceedingly satisfying audio visual pleasure, ‘The Doors of Perception’.    

This collaborative piece poses questions about the reality of our senses. As Kate and India explain, “The context in which we see and hear something can alter how we perceive it. Our intuitive faith in our senses hides the fundamental question; do our senses convey reality?”

We at Loop.Coop have always been interested in visualising sounds, so we love the playful way that this piece toys with the viewer’s expectations. Watch the video and open your ‘Doors of Perception’ now! 

Azy is a wondrous artist. Her creative strengths lay in illustration, character making and animation, and boom out with vivacious spirit and energy, spinning us through a spiral of childlike joy. 

We especially love the brilliant combination of the real world with her cartoon world, using collages of photography and illustration. 

Another artist who grabbed our attention at the Brighton Uni Graduate Show is Steph Hope. She generously spreads her talents over many creative forms — film making, illustration, animation, music, and comedy!

Her work is delightful, playful, a little dark but very humorous. We love it all and want you to check her out…

But first, feast on a few of her videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVRHKQzHKlM

Vicky Stevenson is a very interesting artist indeed. Her piece, ‘Swap With Me’ at Brighton Uni Graduate Show, stood out as an especially joyous collaborative project.

Vicky has spent the last few weeks art-swapping: illustrations, photos, jewellery, skills, wisdom… dozens of wonderful and eclectic contributions traded with people all around the country.

Focusing on the idea of sharing and swapping rather than buying, Vicky creates a gentler kind of economics that warms the heart. We love how it encourages a vibrant and more accessible sort of art, and we can’t wait to find out what she gets up to next!

Julie-Ann Pedida is a recent Brighton Uni graduate who greatly excites us at Loop.Coop! 

We love the way she courageously builds such bright and captivating formations. They remind us of something found on an unknown, but very intriguing planet! 

Julie-Ann not only hatches wonderful 3D forms, she also produces fabulous illustrations, film, flipbooks and masks.