112 – Proposal –
Seeing and Feeling Sound
For my interactive
object I want to create an experiment that allows the mind to visualise and
feel sound that you are hearing. I want to create sounds that the brain
directly associates the way certain material look and feel like. This will in a
sense be and illusion of the mind as the objects appearance and texture have no
visual association but I want to create an object that suggests the human brain
has the ability to visualise and feel what it is feeling, creating a
multisensory experience. I intend on creating this experience buy attaching
contrasting textures to different notes on a keyboard. I will use the software
“Ableton Live” to make each key trigger a sound that I feel is reflective of
the materials texture. As people will have a varied expectance of what each
sound should look or feel like I will have to survey a certain amount of
people. I will create different sounds and different materials and ask a
selection of people to match certain textures with different sounds. I will repeat
and refine this selection to the point where I am getting consistent results
with pairing of materials to sounds. As we have no way to explain how our brain
turns soundwaves, light waves and electrical impulses through our nervous
system into an experience I hope to give the user a new way of considering this
phenomenon. I feel that combining sensors is a good way of investigating this,
and I also hope through my findings this idea can be replicated in a more
practical direction, weather it is used to enhance the way musicians play
instruments, or to help someone blind experience sight without necessarily
seeing.
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