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

Cymatics
Susi Sie

Cymatics

One of the best attempts to visualize sound we have ever seen (and there have been hundreds) this succeeds so well because the precisely visible action of actual sound waves upon the super-fine powder filmed by Sie, feels real and not the result of some forced corespondance.The resulting sequence is amazingly persuasive because of this precise consilience between sound and vision. Perhaps a rare glimpse into a synesthesic world for those untroubled by this condition. Wonderfully vivid sense of matter transforming.

Vimeo
"...have not you yourself sensed a difference in the light that suffuses such a room, a rare tranquility not found in ordinary light? Have you never felt a sort of fear in the face of the ageless, a fear that in that room you might looses all consciousness of the passage of time, that untold years might pass and upon emerging you should find that you had grown old and grey?"
- Junichiro Tanizaki, 1977, In Praise Of Shadows