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

Soundscape Architecture - Karen Van Lengen
Soundscape Archtecture

Soundscape Architecture - Karen Van Lengen

Karen Van Lengen has created a series of sonic portraits of iconic buildings rendered here with beautiful animations. We are regularly treated to attempts to create meaningful concilience between different environments and information sets. This is a rare occasion on which it works quite beautifully. There is an effortless sense of genuine cause and effect when watching the accompanying visualizations. They seem genuinely to lend something to the carefully prepared acoustic snapshots of each space. Of course any correspondence involves making aesthetic choices but these beguiling, translucent "Tanguy - esque" scenes illustrate and augment the sounds perfectly.

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"I headed toward that corridor and, upon reaching that door I was numbed by the violence of fragrances which bloomed like organs growing measurably more intense by the minute."
- Marcel Proust, translation - 2001, Another Memory [The Collected Short Stories Of Marcel Proust]