Furniture Music Project

We have just started work on our latest project - Furniture Music (working title). This is being developed by Dr Toby Heys and will take the form of a sound installation at the LEVEL Centre opening on the 29th of April 2017. Toby is the Digital Technologies Research Fellow at the Research Centre, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art and is collaborating with LEVEL to create Furniture Music.

Furniture Music is based around creating sound at the edge of, and just beyond, our (human) sensory perception. To do this Toby has been working with some bespoke speakers and has just taken delivery of a TRACTION Sub Bass - see images below.

Toby Heys (Left) with Level Director Andrew Williams looking at the Traction SUB at MIRIAD

 

 

 

 

The TRACTION SUB

TRACTION Sound LTD are based in Brighton and have developed this SUB specifically for the Furniture Music Project.  It does not work in the same way as normal speaker - instead of using a magnet and coil it makes use of a piston to move the large plastic diaphragm. This means it can move a lot of air and should be capable of producing sound at 10Hz  - a sound you will feel rather than hear. Furniture Music is a research project  - developing new compositions using sound as a sense and will explore our reactions to sound at the very edge of our perception. These new works will make use of low frequency and very high frequency sound. It is envisaged that it will make people feel uncomfortable and slightly stressed and this will be an important part of the experience. Toby is currently working to build a set of speakers for the installation at LEVEL. These will be housed in purpose built chairs and objects - each making sounds at the edge of the limits of human hearing. 

More details of this project will be posted here soon.