Dreamscape is an installation I directed through Moment Factory for Singapore Changi Airport. It is one of two installations (the other being Wonderfall) - The garden itself is designed by Boiffils (architects) and Patrick Blanc (plants).

A digital skylight above the garden emulates real-time daylight and weather conditions in Changi, using data from the airport’s weather system. The feature periodically transits into 6 min shows that give visitors the sense of being underwater, as “animals” swim by on the surface above them.

When standing on Dreamscape’s acrylic panels, visitors can also gaze at fish – real ones this time – swimming beneath their feet in one of the garden’s ponds.

The sound in this garden is unique. Instead of using a pre-recorded ambience we are using generative real time sound using Wwise. Calls of birds, insects and other animals that were recorded (partly by me and our two sound designers; Joseph Browne and Christian Rivest) in Singapore, including on Pulau Ubin, are projected throughout Dreamscape.

Here is a clip of Joseph explaining how the sound works from around 2’20” in the video

From the website of MF:

Airside, travellers in transit can unwind in an immersive garden that sprouts from an elevated platform over a pond under a limitless digital sky. In this lush, multisensory ecosystem, natural and digital features flourish harmoniously with each other and the outdoor environment.

Like a skylight, the digital sky opens an overhead window to the world above, emulating daylight and meteorological conditions in real time through integration with the airport weather system. Throughout the garden, the tropical sounds of Singapore can be heard through the calls of birds, insects and other local creatures, generated in real time from a catalog of nearly 100 recordings and played through an immersive 3D sound system.

From sunrise to the star-filled night sky, the dynamic garden and digital sky give travellers a sense of time and place while offering surprises in the form of passing planes, birds, hot air balloons, and clouds subtly shaped like animals. Periodically, the regular forecast breaks as rain fills the sky and transforms the skylight into an underwater portal where fish, otters, and even a Sampan boat float by.

There is a VR view on this website: https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2023/11/changi-airport-terminal-2-reopens-singapore/index.html?shell