Artificial Hearing in the Cushioned World
Sound for Vision, custom-built multi-channel binaural microphone used in Hello, Again, 2012
Chris Milk
This unique binaural microphone was designed with 4 sets of ears to better capture sound from multiple directions all at once. Used in 2012 to create a VR experience, it captured musician Beck performing a version of David Bowie’s 1977 song, Sound and Vision, along with a 160-person orchestra, with sound fading in and out of each ear.
Taken in the exhibition
Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR
(May – April 2023)
Millions around the world are part of an online community who experience ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response): a physical sensation of euphoria or deep calm, sometimes a tingling in the body, triggered through sound, touch, and movement.
This is the first exhibition of its kind to lift the world of ASMR out from your screen and into physical space. Step into an acoustically tuned environment and understand how people are using new and existing tools and materials to navigate our complex world.
Explore the emerging field of creativity that has grown up around this feeling and the work of designers and content creators who try to trigger it in their viewers.
The exhibition is curated in collaboration with ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.
[Design Museum]
Artificial Hearing in the Cushioned World
Sound for Vision, custom-built multi-channel binaural microphone used in Hello, Again, 2012
Chris Milk
This unique binaural microphone was designed with 4 sets of ears to better capture sound from multiple directions all at once. Used in 2012 to create a VR experience, it captured musician Beck performing a version of David Bowie’s 1977 song, Sound and Vision, along with a 160-person orchestra, with sound fading in and out of each ear.
Taken in the exhibition
Weird Sensation Feels Good: The World of ASMR
(May – April 2023)
Millions around the world are part of an online community who experience ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response): a physical sensation of euphoria or deep calm, sometimes a tingling in the body, triggered through sound, touch, and movement.
This is the first exhibition of its kind to lift the world of ASMR out from your screen and into physical space. Step into an acoustically tuned environment and understand how people are using new and existing tools and materials to navigate our complex world.
Explore the emerging field of creativity that has grown up around this feeling and the work of designers and content creators who try to trigger it in their viewers.
The exhibition is curated in collaboration with ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design.
[Design Museum]