Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Boom Room - sound sculpting in Berlin
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Boom Room - sound sculpting in Berlin

The Boom Room in Berlin uses an array of directional speakers in concert with movement sensors to create a body responsive, targeted sound environment. Whilst this installation is both hugely complex and somewhat monolithic in its presence, the idea of motion-tracking sound has very seductive possibilities. As we are awash with unwanted and unresponsive sound sources, the idea that environmental and recreational sound may be intelligently focused and articulated becomes very appealing.The refinement of our excesses and the sculpting of all aspects of our cultural "noise" will increasingly determine the livability of our built environments.

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"Vision places us in the present tense, whereas haptic experience evokes the experience of a temporal continuum. "
- Juhani Pallasmaa, 1999, Hapticity and Time