NIME 2014 (New Interfaces for Musical Expression)

Sense Boxes: Interactive Installation for small boxes, fabric, sensors, headphones & electronics

If one could touch sound, what would if feel like?

We are constantly touched by sound in the world around us. But it touches us, we don’t touch it.  In this interactive installation for fabric, sensors, sounds & headphones, participants are invited to discover what a sound might feel like if we could hold it in our hands, through one artist’s vision. Like the selected physical material, the sounds used are highly textural. They were then connected to a sonic “fuzzy” sound with a physical “fuzzy material”. The participant gently pushes, pulls, squeezes, and stretches the material, which manipulates the sounds coming through the headphones. Sensitivities are rewarded with subtle interactive moments.