sKuareWave is holographic music creation in XR.

Players wave and pinch inside holographic sKuares, to play and to program patterns. sKuareWave consists of instrument sequencers and a drum sequencer, each supporting variable-length sequences. Instrument, and scale can be changed in real-time with hand movements, as the composition plays. skuareWave has realtime audio effects that can be manipulated through movement. Voice, and live instruments can be incorporated and looped. The players view is projected to a screen, and audio is transmitted wirelessly, with low latency.

sKuareWave was conceived at the Cyberdelic Society Hackathon in November in Berlin XXX, and the work emerges from decades of teaching and research at TU Dublin, lead by inventor and founder Dr Bryan Duggan.

Main features 

• Holographic instruments

• Melodic Sequencers

• Drum machine

• MIDI Synthesizer with beautiful orchestral sounds

• Realtime effects, filters, delay and reverb preconfigured

• Sonic visualisation

• Built in music theory

• Looping samplers

• Live Mixing and performance space

• Holographic recording, playback and looping of the players movements

• Local cross-platform multiplayer with beat and BPM sync - the sKuareRave

• Hands first, playful, multi-sensory design that encourages experimentation, learning and growth

• Spatial first, designed to encourage the player to move, and and a UX that blends with the world

• design inspired by 1950's Computer Science, 1970's Sci Fi, Retro-Futurism and Cyberdelics