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

Turbo-Gusli - VTOL - demo performance
Dmitry Morozov

Turbo-Gusli - VTOL - demo performance

Dmitry Morozov's VTOL project has seen the creation of a number of fabulously eccentric robotic instruments. Turbo Gusli clearly speaks to the creator's Russian roots and the essential, audible addition of servo sounds integral to the working is hugely engaging. Heard without vision, this recording produces an imagined narrative of baffling activity in the mind of the viewer: a meticulous score for a twisted animation. The odd charm of actually seeing the precision machinery attacking these folkloric objects just completes the genius of it all. An object lesson in predictive association.

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"The chemical senses like smell and taste together with the sensing of textures and temperatures produce the perception of flavour, which has been called a "multisensory modality""
- Andreas Keller, 2016, Philosophy of Olfactory Perception