Sensory Design Studio

Sounds and Sweet Airs is a sensory project that aims to evoke conversations about human-environment relationships through an immersive synthetic sound ecology featuring several mechanical “species” of creatures that generate sounds from everyday recycled materials. These critters, each having its own personality, are sensitive to different elements of the physical environment. When distributed in a built environment, they create an evolving soundscape that reflects the state of the space they occupy and collectively emit a nature-like sound atmosphere the kind of which is gradually disappearing in increasingly urbanised environments. Through a series of iterations and evolutions, the work rethinks humans’ sonic relationship to the built environment in relation to memories of natural habitats. By immersing the audience in a sound field of subtle auditory cues, the project stimulates more intimate sensory connections to the spaces around us.