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.

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Görkem Şen - The Yaybahar - new musical instrument

Görkem Şen - The Yaybahar - new musical instrument

Every so often a new instrument is announced, often a hybrid cobbled together from parts or, an electronic "trigger, which simply activates preselected sounds and sequences, they almost always fail to excite. The Yaybahar is exceptional principally as both the origin and the sole means of expressive control over the sound. Görkem Åžen clearly has near virtuosic command of his creation and the sound pallet and expressive range are quite glorious. It feels like an instrument which has a history, an established repertoire. Hard then to imagine it has been both created and mastered by one individual. As an achievement in true multi sensory engagement this is pretty hard to beat. The Sound Cloud recordings attached to the link are just beautiful. 

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- Charles Fernyhough, 2012, Pieces Of Light