OUTERGROUND – home to the eclectronic output of Christos Richard Hatjoullis. Bringing together the many strands of Outerground’s creative output from music to moving image, digital art – XR & immersive works.
Listen to the latest OUTERGROUND Album release Dimensions One to Nine in the player below. Exclusive content, back catalogue tracks and unpublished works to follow along with curated spotify playlists & an online store with OUTERGROUND merch.
Coming soon. New projects including audio visual expeditions into projection mapping and 5th Dimensional XR experiences with Lightform.
For a deeper dive into the XR side of OUTERGROUND visit VRoom-STudio
VR Quest headset 1,2,3 & PRO users. Experience PROMENADE, a 6DoF, fully immersive, graphic visually & interactive experience utilising handtracking & gaze initiation. Written, directed & produced by Christos, the ten minute piece explores contemporary artist Mike Hatjoullis’ epic journey from working on the family’s hotdog stall in Blackpool’s 1950’s heyday to winning a scholarship to The Royal College of Art.
Using Mike’s iconic Black & White lino print work as a basis for the environments, PROMENADE was created in VR using Gravity Sketch & optimised in Blender with embedded classic BFI footage, ambisonic spatial audio and A.I colourised family archive. A stylised yet naturalistic feel is created for the imaginative re-telling of an intergenerational immigrant family’s history. A story of dislocation, alienation and integration.
Commissioned by Storyfutures and produced in collaboration with BFI & BBC as part of the award winning Storytrails strand, the piece was selected for a 15 city UK tour and subsequently chosen for a BFI Experiences tour at BFI locations around the country. Showing at selected venues around the UK through 2024/25. Available as a FREE headset download from the Meta Quest store
Find out more about the making of PROMENADE VR here
“What is the Outerground and where can it be found ? “It’s the limitless Inner Space of imagination” says the London based electronic artist and producer. “The internal world we all create for ourselves, inhabited by the ghosts of experience.” Outerground’s is a busy place, full of vivid imagery, acquaintances, fictional characters, otherworldly beings & far off places, visited, dreamed of and imagined. There’s always a jukebox in the background, playing melodies in all the keys of life and it’s 7-inch vinyl collection rotates a vast, eclectic playlist.” excerpt from Lifoti Magazine article.. read the full page feature here
