W2, the sequel to the critically acclaimed forgotten future: W1 album has been in the works for years. According to many, it’s been too long of a wait for a major new forgotten future release, but according to its creator, “good work takes time” – referring to the concept of W2: Time itself. On October 22nd, forgotten future gave an hour-long electronic music concert at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long in Hanoi, Vietnam, at the invitation of Monsoon Festival. The track list included some fan favorites from the W1 and Realignment albums, as well as some W1 tracks not previously performed in forgotten future shows. But the surprise was the world premier of two brand new tracks,Circular Time and Bending Time, from the upcoming W2 album.
forgotten future electronic music performance. Concert footage courtesy of Thanh Viet Production.
“Traveling to Hanoi felt like a time travel to an alternate past on its own, so it was a fitting event to premier the first bits of an album that’s all about the interpretations of Time. The Imperial Citadel is rich in history, the area is full of cultural and textural layers, lots of details… which also characterize the music, so it felt like the right pairing.” – said Julius Dobos, composer of forgotten future. “I also wanted to create some continuity between the previous albums and the new one, and playing tracks from the old and the new in the same concert was a natural way to connect them.”
The closing piece, Bending Time, featured Trang Pham, one of Hanoi’s top Dan Bau performers. (The Dan Bau is Vietnam’s original, traditional one-stringed instrument, which allows the player to intricately bend notes). The music presented an interplay between cutting-edge electronics and traditional Eastern colors, a duet between new and old musical expressions.
Track list from the Hanoi show:
(forgotten future pre-show ambience)
1. Circular Time (from W2)
2. This Time Back to the Lucky Blue (from Realignment)
3. Witnessing the Forces (from W1)
4. Energy Assembly (from W1)
5. Breakthrough Chroma Mix (from Live in California)
6. Parallel Realities Epic Monk Mix (from Realignment)
7. Return to a New Ending (from W1)
8. Bending Time (from W2)
Footage from this one-off electronic music concert is expected to be published in early 2024 – check back for updates here!
forgotten future live at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles – featuring the first ever real-time audience-controlled music performance of its kind
Following a successful 2017 show, Julius is returning to SIGGRAPH this year with a newly composed official Theme Music, and to perform the theme at the Opening Ceremony in Los Angeles, California. The majestic, electronic – symphonic score will be also heard throughout the conference (and around the downtown L.A. Convention Center). You can play & download an mp3 file of the music here.
SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest, most influential annual conference and exhibition in computer graphics and interactive techniques, attended by tens of thousands of professionals in the areas of film, games, VR and other new visual media.
FORGOTTEN FUTURE – INTERACTIVE AUDIENCE-CONTROLLED MUSIC at SIGGRAPH
Julius as forgotten future will be also performing a 25-minute set at Real Time Live! on Tuesday, July 30th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This revolutionary, experimental music event will reverse the roles of performer and audience, and put the control over Julius’ performance into the audience’s hands – quite literally. Various aspects of the music will be collectively influenced by several different sections of the audience in the 2,500 auditorium – in real-time. Julius will “gently guide” the audience through spontaneous projection of motion graphics, while participants will be using their smart phones to collectively change various aspects of the music and sound.
The event will be the first interactive performance of its kind in the word, and will also include a section where the audience will be composing a completely new piece of music together with Julius in real time. This will be achieved by sensors capturing smart phones’ flashlight gestures in several areas of the auditorium, computers translating those impulses into messages that are then fed into Julius’ performance computer and electronic musical instruments on stage. The set will feature three popular forgotten future tracks and an electronic, trance-inspired version of the new SIGGRAPH Theme.
In order to attend the performance (and witness the latest in computer graphics and interactive technologies), you must have at least a one-day ticket to the Real Time Live! event. The SIGGRAPH website gives you plenty of options to choose from.
SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest, most influential annual conference and exhibition in computer graphics and interactive techniques, attended by tens of thousands of professionals in the areas of film, games, VR and other new visual media.
This year’s 5-day-long event will be held in Los Angeles, California. Julius as forgotten future will be performing a 10-minute block at SIGGRAPH on Sunday, July 30th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The show will include a brand new, live version of a forgotten future track from the W1 album, as well as a live “forgotten future-ized” mix of the new SIGGRAPH Theme.
In order to attend the performance (and witness the latest in computer graphics and new media), you must have a Sunday F or FP event ticket. The SIGGRAPH website gives you plenty of options to choose from.
Julius [forgotten future] will give a talk at the invitation of the Laptop Music Production Workshop group in Silicon Valley, on Thursday, April 27th.
Topics will include culture’s effect on creativity in music production, technology’s effect on music and sound, and the relationship between the ways art is consumed and created.
Check out this page for more information. The talk is free to attend, but registration is recommended.
The music of forgotten future is about layers, details and emotions. The aim of the interactive online music experience is to give you the opportunity to discover dozens upon dozens of layers, each full of intricate details, for every scene of the W1 journey. Not only you will encounter philosophical and aesthetic links between the visuals, sonics and emotional ingredients, you’ll also be able to create your own mix of them by using six faders that adjust the sonic, musical, visual and emotional subtleties of the music, the artwork and the multiversal concepts.
Get lost in discovering new details for your philosophical endeavors. Or, keep it minimal and create an ambient soundtrack as the sonic backdrop for your evening in the exhibition view — the experience is yours to shape.
