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HYMNE

Four musical worlds waiting to be entered

HYMNE stands for HYbrid Music, New Experiences: a new music platform where artists, technology and imagination converge to redefine how we experience music.
The first phase of the platform consists of four intimate mixed-reality experiences, developed by 4DR Studios and Effenaar Lab in collaboration with four artists with distinct creative identities: WITT, CHARLOT, Anneke van Giersbergen and Dylan van Dael.

The result is a collection of experiences that are not just watched or listened to, but truly felt.
Each experience is built around a single track, one story that unfolds the moment the participant puts on the headset.

WITT – Insomnia

In Insomnia, visitors lie in hammocks, almost weightless, as the physical space dissolves into a monochrome dreamscape that at times feels closer to a nightmare.
WITT’s layered vocals move around the room, enhanced by live performers who visually blend into the digital environment.
An intimate experience about sleeplessness, closeness and the moment of letting go.

CHARLOT – Lost Like Alice

CHARLOT creates a surreal VR world inspired by the symbolism in her song.
Participants move through a sequence of scenes where free choice and guided motion continuously trade places.
An immersive daydream in which losing yourself — and being found again — becomes the central theme.

Anneke van Giersbergen – The Passage of Time

In this poetic VR journey, you walk through four moments of the day, each with its own atmosphere, light and arrangement of Anneke’s track.
Anneke appears as a holographic presence woven seamlessly into each scene.
The world shifts with you, as if time itself becomes momentarily pliable.

ylan van Dael – Better If I Go

Around the character Pokka unfolds a melancholic mixed-reality experience.
Pokka moves, floats and transforms the space with digital traces.
Visitors share a dreamy virtual layer that hovers over reality, forming a collective yet intimate encounter.

A platform for the future

HYMNE is designed to be more than a series of standalone experiences.
It is the first step toward a large-scale digital concert platform where live performances, volumetric presence and shared virtual worlds seamlessly come together.

Our ambition:

To create a creative music space where you can attend online concerts together with friends.

And to build a hybrid performance environment where artists can explore new forms of expression, and where audiences can meet in digital and hybrid concert halls, worlds and installations.