nightseed

Join us at KMAC Museum for nightseed, a free shared VR experience featuring live music and visuals created by local artists.
About this Event

Join us at KMAC Museum for nightseed, a free shared VR experience featuring music and sound design by Chelsea Komschlies, created in collaboration with Louisville Makes Games and the Louisville Orchestra.

In nightseed, a small group enters a dark forest filled with the remains of a lost civilization — exploring together, finding fragments of cultural memory stored as sound, and bringing them back to life. No words, no written language. Just music, discovery, and a little bit of trust.

Click the "Check Availability" link above and choose an available time slot that works for you. Each session of this VR experience is meant to last roughly 10 minutes. Can't make a reservation? No problem — anyone is welcome to drop in and enjoy the live harpist and projected visuals of the game at no cost and with no sign-up required.

nightseed is a shared, in-person VR experience at the KMAC Museum. It is designed to be experienced together. You are in the same room as other people, moving through the same strange place at the same time, figuring things out side by side.

Made in collaboration with Louisville Makes Games and the Louisville Orchestra, the piece places a small group inside a dark forest filled with the remains of a lost civilization. What is left behind are fragments of cultural memory stored as sound on petrified tree seeds. No written language, no spoken words. Just music.

As you explore, you find these seeds left by a civilization that crumbled long ago and bring them back to a central tree. When activated, they reveal pieces of a culture that believed sound was enough to carry everything that mattered. Story, feeling, history, identity. It is all there if you listen.

The work is about discovery and a little bit of trust. Try something, see what happens. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and that's part of it. I hope people walk away with a sense that meaning does not always need words, and that what we choose to preserve says a lot about who we are, even long after we are gone.