With music by the legendary London composer Jon Hopkins, Dreamachine is a seated, multisensory experience combining flickering white light with 360 degree spatial sound to create a colourful world behind your closed eyes.
Created by the power of your brain and unique to you, the experience will offer you a new way to disconnect from everyday life, and reconnect with both yourself and others.
Only you will know, because every experience of the Dreamachine is completely personal.
You might see patterns and shapes, cities and landscapes, or abstract waves of shifting colours. It might feel like a rollercoaster ride, a journey through time and space, or you might even drift into sleep.
A once-in-a-lifetime 360 degree spatial audio experience will take you on an extraordinary journey into the potential of your mind. For many, the choreography of flickering lights and music conjures colourful patterns and visuals behind closed eyes.
Curl up in a blanket, sit back, close your eyes (or keep them open) and get lost in a moment that is just for you. Deep Listening is a 360 degree spatial audio experience with a gentle, curated lightscape. The music will take you on a deeply relaxing and immersive journey while the lights gently wash over you.
Both experiences are between 90 – 120 minutes including time in the reflection space.
Dreamachine is for adults aged 18 and over. If you are under 18 you can take part in our Learning Programme.
Dreamachine is designed to be as inclusive and accessible as possible. Please visit our Access page if you have any requirements and for more information.
To help find the best experience for you, please complete the pre-booking form before booking your ticket.
Dreamachine is available as a High Sensory or Deep Listening experience.
Choose from our current locations and book your ticket.
27.06.23 — 30.09.23
Studio Dreamachine offers a pilot version of the acclaimed immersive experience in an intimate setting.
"I met myself on the edge of the world"
Inspired by an extraordinary but little-known 1959 invention by artist–inventor Brion Gysin, Dreamachine was designed to be the ‘first artwork to be experienced with your eyes closed.
His experimental homemade device used flickering light to create vivid illusions, kaleidoscopic patterns and explosions of colour in the mind of the viewer.
With a pioneering vision for his invention to replace the television in every home in America, Gysin believed viewers of his Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences, instead of being passive consumers of mass-produced media.
Gysin died before his vision could be realised, but his idea to use technology to reconnect us with our inner lives remains just as radical, and relevant, today.
Over sixty years after its original invention, Dreamachine has been radically reimagined as a powerful new kind of collective experience.
