Research paper draft-How Does sound can be touched?
Why do I choose this topic?
My inspiration comes from Synaesthesia. Synaesthete can experience mixing of sense, which makes they perceive the world in an extraordinary way. If I can use one stimuli to trigger two or more senses at the same time, it will be an unexpected experience that can expand the perceptive mode of ordinary people.
How do people perceive the world?
1: How do people hear?
Our ears enable us to detect vibrations in the air around us. We call these vibrations 'sound'. Sound travels through our ear and reaches the special receptor cells. These cells change the sound vibrations into electrical signals, which pass along the auditory nerve to the brain.
2:How do people move to touch?
Several different areas of brain have to work together. Different areas of our brain deal with planning, carrying out, overseeing and remembering movements.
(relevant factor: pain,pressure, temperature)
3：How do people select information from five senses?
Even before you pay attention to something, you have already filtered out a lot of background information. People’s awareness of tactile stimuli has been investigated in far less detail than their awareness of stimuli in the other senses.
why do people want to touch some thing? How can I trigger the desire of touch?
The first is a sensory pathway, which gives us the facts about touch — like vibration, pressure, location and fine texture. “It basically analyzes information through a series of processing stages that extract more and more complicated information,” said Linden. “It’s all about figuring out the facts, and it uses sequential stages of processing to gradually build up tactile images and perform the recognition of objects.”
The second pathway processes social and emotional information, when we experience a warm touch of a loved one，the touch stimulates C-fibers onvey information to the brain about interpersonal touch — specifically, the light caress. These fibers send signals to the posterior insula (a brain area involved in perception and motor control), which produces a soft, pleasant sensation.
How does sound match with tactile?
Normally the high-pitch sound match with the tactile that let people feel dangerous or surprised, because high frequency of sounds are more penetrating like an alarm…….
Some art works about synaesthsia and tactile：
“Polifonia liquida” (liquid polyphony) is a new sound and light installation exhibited at Inter Arts Center for the Gallery Night of Malmö (Sweden) on the 26th of September, 2015
Designer translated sound to image very ingeniously. First, the wave of water visualize the sound , then the light and shadow magnified the image of wave. Actually the height of water splashes depended the frequency of speaker, in my view, audience can touch the water splashes to feel the change of rhythm.
Haptic (Group show)
The remote control: made from gel, this familiar object has an unexpectedly soft textural quality. The contrast between normal texture and new texture will excite people’s curiosity, then people want to touch it.
Naoto Fukasawa ‘Juice Skin’:
Shuhei Hasado ‘His Geta shoes’
Both of them are inspired by the natural world. To make user feel as touch the real natural surface. They provide audience with maximum information of visual , which can provoke feelings of tactile. If I have chance to touch these works, I hope the touch feeling is sufficiently different with there are looks like.
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