Immortelle
Release date: Nov 15, 2022
Developers: MUTEK
Publishers: MUTEK
Genres: Indie
Categories: Single-player, Tracked Controller Support, VR Only, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English, French

Immortelle is an abstract and figurative non-game artwork that illustrates the flights and falls of psychological endurance. It is a personal story told through the paintbrush of Virtual Reality in a fast-paced flux of sound and visual fragments. Warning: Contains some flashing lights and quick camera movement and transitions which may not be suitable for photosensitive people. THE TRIP Contemplate changes of scenes and seasons, pave through evocative empty structures, wade through waves and mountain peaks, and encounter a presence in a vacuum. At times deep, at times shattering, at times peaceful - Immortelle traces the unpredictable range of our own emotions. FEATURES Travel in 6DOF Engage in a unique artistic audiovisual narrative Journey through multiple environnements Experience moments of light interaction Lean back into binaural sound Uncover sensitive states and intense upheavals ABOUT THE ARTIST Line Katcho is a composer and audiovisual artist primarily interested in sound and image as demonstrations of kinetic matter. Immortelle XR is adapted from a live performance that was received with a standing ovation for its premiere at MUTEK electronic music Festival in Montréal, 2018. PART OF MUTEK'S IMMERSIVE COLLECTION An electronic music and digital arts festival for 23 years, now navigating the artistic possibilities of VR. MUTEK acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Press reviews: “As the new curator for Church of VR, I would like to highlight 4 works, for how they point to different futures and different parts of being human: 'Immortelle' part of the MUTEK collection is made by composer Line Katcho who bends our mind with pure audiovisual matter: despite the abstraction this work conveys some deep psychological processes, a process of mental endurance, of transformation, ‘simply’ by allowing a totally new and inherently audiovisual and psychological ‘logic’ to rule this virtual reality, she too lets go of reality as we know it and manages to take us on a ride inside our selves.” VR Days Europe