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Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold II: Mojuba

Journey into the realm between worlds and hear the songs of the ancestors calling us back to our eternal home. Mojuba is a new take on a traditional Yoruban hymn, from Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold, that guides those departing from the earthly plane across the cosmic river to join the council of elders in the afterlife. In this mixed reality experience we invite you to be transported by the light and interact with the cosmos as you leave this earthly plane behind.

This mixed reality experience explores the possibilities of an interactive music video that integrates our surroundings and responds to the music and our movement. The stars open up above you, welcoming you to look up as the ancestors descend to surround you in harmony. The sound of Vox.Infold’s many voices are spatialized into your real physical surroundings, allowing you to explore the rich complexity of this ambisonic composition where you have the power to mix the music by moving towards the light. Reach out with your palms up to draw in the energy from the ancestors and play with the rivers of light.

  • Ruby Singh
    Producer
  • John Desnoyers-Stewart
    Immersive Experience Design and Development
  • Dawn Pemberton
    Vocals
  • Inuksuk McKay
    Vocals
  • Tiffany Alalik
    Vocals
  • Russell Wallace
    Vocals
  • Tiffany Moses
    Vocals
  • Hussein JanMohamed
    Vocals
  • Shamik Bilgi
    Vocals
  • Ruby Singh
    Vocals
  • John Raham
    Recording and Mixing
  • Brock MacFarlane
    Mastering
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality
  • Genres:
    music video, mixed reality, interactive, passthrough
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 29, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Vox.Infold II Album Launch
    Vancouver
    Canada
    November 29, 2024
  • V-Unframed 2024
    Vancouver
    Canada
    November 16, 2024
  • Signals Creative Tech Expo
    Vancouver
    Canada
    September 27, 2024
Distribution Information
  • Meta Horizons Store
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: Console / Handheld Device
Director Biography

Ruby Singh is an award-winning performer, composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, Canada). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, ecology, justice and fantasy. Singh is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.

John Desnoyers-Stewart is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher with a PhD in interactive art and technology who creates immersive installations and performances to connect people and evoke new perspectives on our shared reality. He has exhibited his multi-user mixed reality installations, Star-Stuff, Eve 3.0, and more in over 70 exhibitions at art galleries and festivals around the world. Through these installations, he hopes to encourage social connection and collaborative creativity, exploring positive social applications of virtual reality and better understanding the experience of embodying abstract bodies.

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Director Statement

Vox Infold II: Mojuba confronts assumptions around our own mortality and the afterlife. Death is often treated as a fearful end—the one certainty we might live our whole lives afraid of. Instead of typical themes of horror and dread, Mojuba explores a positive view of our entry into the afterlife. The immersant begins the experience not yet realizing that they have already gone beyond the veil. Rather than confronting demons, they are surrounded by the warm embrace of the ancestors singing to welcome you home as you travel a cosmic river to rejoin with eternity and all that there is.

Mojuba confronts the ultimate uncertainty of our lives, reminding viewers that before they know it, the body they take for granted will fade into distant memory. Mojuba quite literally gives participants an experience of a possible afterlife, dissolving their bodily boundaries with the cosmos. Mojuba recognizes that perhaps death isn’t something to fear, but rather an evolution—one which we cannot know until we arrive. We hope that we can offer immersants a moment of peace to connect with their ancestors mentally and spiritually as they contemplate eternity and their place in the universe.