Augmented Music is a composition of abstract sculptures, where acoustic vibrations are converted in real time into tactile sensations, to enable visitors to feel sound. The installation has been conceived based on studies of cross-sensory perceptions and resonance frequencies. Each sculpture enables visitors to experience different modalities of tactile stimuli by filtering and enhancing some parts of the auditory signals across their surface.

Augmented Music is part of a research on experimental sensorial mediation supports: could one mediate vision through smells or audition through haptics?
This sensory experiment is part of a broader reflection on alternative means of communication which aligns with the “Sensory Turn”  paradigm shift in humanities and social science. What happens when we engage in sensory translation of aesthetic experiences? How does the sense of touch extend auditory perception?
 
By blurring the line between art and mediation, Augmented Music attempts to explore these questions.


Project partners:

Technical University of Denmark (Professor Marozeau), Résonance Nocturne (Charlotte Nordin and Raphaël Ortis).

Augmented Music at Folkemødet 2024, Bornholm, Denmark. Pictures : Landsbyggefonden/ Liv M. Kastrup︎︎︎