This project attempts to explore the threshold between sound, visuals, and perception. Hoping to blur the lines in between, and investigate how perception and interpretation of sound affects our understanding of the world around us.
Our over-dependency of visual input for navigating the environment undermines the importance of our other senses. How can humans take a ‘synesthetic’ approach, and give hearing and imagining a larger role? Moreover, how can designers and artists utilize the same approach to stimulate those experiences?
The work is conducted by setting up frameworks for experimentation, exploration, and distribution. There seems to be no direct hypothesis or a goal, but rather a process that can help me collect insight on how the project might evolve into the future. Through refining and creating new experiments, exploring the prompts, and distributing the results; the project forms into a metabolic entity that can slowly grow, whether the experiments succeed or fail.
The initial experimentation involves participants listening to seven different sounds that were recorded at different locations. The prompt asks that these participants describe the spaces/places/situations that they hear, rather than the sound itself. This serves as an exploration in human memory, imagination, and perception.
Created and facilitated by Nodo Ugulava.