Sound Conversion into Nuanced Vibrations can be a Lifechanger!

[Randy Eady]

​The intention of the work is to enable the newly-minted, "embodied-listener" to have a quasi-intuitive, physical experience of complex multidimensional sensations. The Soundshirt invites the wearer to explore space beyond our ordinary perception, to discover what else is inherent to human nature, the world of connected senses and how we are able to evolve consciousness via "sensorial" animation:  to refine/new "organs of perception".

Tracing vibroacoustic's roots back to the aesthetic philosophy of Organicism certainly helps us refine the deep yearning we have to learn from nature as we search for new multidisciplinary expressions of mutual adaptation.

As we develop built environments with qualities that come close to life— dynamic and pliable environments -- moving, responding and learning with metabolisms which are adaptive and empathic towards their inhabitants -- there's great potential to transform the way we live (and enhance wellbeing) within the natural world.

The Soundshirt features 16 micro-actuators embedded in the fabric of the garment, these actuators receive wirelessly (and in real-time) the music, transformed in data, captured on stage while the musicians/DJs play.

In this way an entire composition "comes alive" as a language composed of a series of haptic (touch-like) sensations stim periphery nerves -- across a person's torso & arms.

As such, violins or guitars can be felt on the arms and percussion/drums on the back -- creating a fully immersive feeling and even potentially eliciting an ASMR-evocation for both hearing impaired as well the typical hearing audience member.

The design of the shirt is comfortable & made of soft stretch fabric, there's no wires in the garment -- as it's crafted using the most advanced smart textiles & wearable, transformatively-conductive technology.

For deaf people w/a passion for dancing -- this is a real breakthrough, lifechanger.

https://youtu.be/6xUAGuq2sBk

The Fashion That Lets You Feel Music - BBC Click

It's very liberating to be feeling the depth of sound and be able to move along with it.

These applications of auditory triggers in vibro-acoustics are truly fascinating, especially as related to mediating/resolving post traumatic stress. It's pleasing to "hear" & see research finding a useful niche in developing these conversations - all the more reason to continue to address bodily position/discipline, and multi-sensory experiences.

If the sensory apparatus involved is the human body, an appropriate means of describing attunement to synaesthetic experience (wherein the combined sensation makes useful otherwise non-threshold-level stimulus from multiple senses) to greatly enhance potentiality in the (cyber)therapeutic encounter. With vast applicability to the broader human experience, as well as being integrated into biofeedback instruments for systematic, reproducible translational therapeutics.

[Randy Eady]

And not to be missed:  SubPac

[Randy Eady]

For another variation: Music: Not Impossible:  a wearable vibro-tactile vest that enables deaf and hearing fans to experience concerts together by translating music into tactile-vibro-acoustic sensations. 

https://iactor.ning.com/profiles/blogs/music-not-impossible-a-first...