In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats - A virtual reality trip back to the glory days of the rave era
The 40-minute VR part of In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats takes participants back to what it was like to be a part of the emerging dance music scene of the late 1980s.
A big party is taking place – but you have no idea where or how to get there. Welcome to the late 1980s and the dawn of the rave scene – a thrillingly analogue era where a public phone box and a friend with a car are essential for anyone hoping to access the brave new world of big beats and life-changing memories.
“This was a community forming itself around music – also the use of ecstasy but also the fact that [it’s taking place] up and down the UK and Ireland, at the end of a decade really that has changed fundamentally what that country is…especially in the UK,” explains VR artist Darren Emerson, the brains behind East City Film’s “interactive VR adventure” In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats – a new virtual reality experience that recreates the thrill of attending an early rave and which comes to Belfast in February.
