What if music didn’t accompany an immersive world, but actually created it?
In Galaxy of Suffering, composer and Creative AI researcher Anna Shvets transforms music into a living, volumetric environment using Neural Radiance Fields, AI-driven audio responsiveness, and real-time interaction. The work builds on her award-winning concept of Volumetric Music Composition, in which music becomes the generative core shaping an XR world.
At its emotional center is the suffering of women during war. As the music unfolds, architecture disintegrates and the environment moves toward a requiem, where visitors release particles representing ascending souls.
The experience is a powerful exploration of how music, art, Creative AI, and XR can converge to create spaces of memory, suffering, resilience, and catharsis.