It’s truly beyond my wildest dreams to do a collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (@ metmuseum) on an installation called “Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet.”
I developed an iPad app to connect to
@enophones brainwave-sensing headphones so that visitors coming to the exhibit could hear their live brainwaves as they looked at the Buddhist mandalas. Their stress was sonified as ocean waves, and if they could relax down into a contemplative or meditative state, they would hear these beautiful pure tones emerge.
The tones were created by using pixel to frequency converters on digital scans of the mandalas. The repeating imagery in the backgrounds became a repeating pulse, which becomes the digital bindu in the soundscape. Other elements in the mandalas were translated into meditative tones. So the soundscape comes directly from the mandala imagery. This allowed people to experience ancient Buddhist artifacts in a new way using biofeedback technology.
A huge thank you to
@davidkfreeman ,
@lauren.mcclelland , and the rest of the team, and the Met for giving me the opportunity to collaborate with them. Also a special thanks to
@sayokoosada for helping with the footage of this very special project.
