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

Sound as destruction at the ESA's Large European Acoustic Facility
ESA

Sound as destruction at the ESA's Large European Acoustic Facility

The idea of sound as being lethal, destructive in and of itself is the stuff of fictions yet this facility exists to test sound's limits. There is something transformative in thinking of any sensory phenomena amplified to levels which can endanger matter or life. The point at which a medium of communication becomes a weapon is strangely fascinating. It begs we re-imagine the familiar which is never a bad thing.

Gizmodo
"The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle and tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through ambergris, camphor, cedar and new-mown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began."
- Aldos Huxley, 1932, Brave New World