Roussel's Music Box
Selected XR Development Market
Information
Roussel's Music Box is a single user experience, with light puzzles and strong musical elements, that immerses the user in Raymond Roussel's universe accompanied by the music of artist Pierre Bastien. Through 6 different environments you will solve small puzzles, playing instruments and collecting the pieces needed to activate a mysterious musical mechanism.
It's also a live site specific installation where audience partecipate a in a collective music experience thru 6 headset and a pop exhibition, hidden in 6 mysterious suitcases..
You will travel in the fantastic and complex world of an artist, a dazzling genius who created an exoteric dimensions made of puns and symbols.
Lead artist(s)
Niccolò Manzolini, Lucia Malerba, Mads Vadsholt
Name of the producer(s)
Niccolò Manzolini, Mads Vadsholt
Premiere Status
Prototype/Demo
Estimated duration (minutes)
20
Artwork category
Art, Documentary, Game, Fiction
Play Area
Room ScaleStanding
Thematic(s)
Culture and arts, Biopic, Music, Interactive, Animation, french litterature - surrealism
Technologies used
3D animationHand trackingInteractivityLocalized (mapped) overlaysVirtual Reality
Production Strategy
Production Company(ies)
Seiperdue, Mads and friends
Estimated Budget
Between 100k and 400k €/$
Acquired Budget (%)
Between 5% and 20%
Name(s) of the funding body(ies) or partner(s)
ER Film Commission Development Found
Open to coproduction
Yes
Distribution Strategy
Targeted audience
Young Adults/Adults interested in music, art, literature, independent
Release Date
2025
Number of user(s)
Single-user experience
Distribution strategy
At homeArt museums & galleriesFestival, Art fairs
Device(s) compatibility
VR Headset
