Sonosfera® is a mobile spherical amphitheatre for 3D-sound sensorial and cognitive experiences. Based on an international patent and trademark, Sonosfera® can travel in contemporary art, science museums and cultural venues, representing a unique Italian innovation in design and technology. Sonosfera® can reconstruct sound environments with the highest spatial audio definition possible with current technology. 3-dimensional sound is delivered by 43+2 custom-built measurement quality loudspeakers, positioned in spherical geometry and a gallery with 60 seats within perfect internal acoustics. Sonosfera delivers a unique deep-listening sensorial and cognitive experience. The theatre is today a cultural platform for expressing multidisciplinary and multi-code programs, spanning from environmentally oriented journeys in biodiversity to voyages in Renaissance Italian art and music, from new ways of exploring aural and visual perception to applications in the areas of neurophysiology and psicoacoustics. The 3-dimensional sound and 360° visual experience delivered by a 24k-resolution circular screen is in fact radically different from the solipsistic 1-person VR immersions given by headsets: in Sonosfera® individuals sit together in the same cavea, as in an ancient Greek theatre; the experience is thus a shared virtual reality where humans are again guests of complex ecosystems, which breath and thrive all around them. Sonosfera®, in fact, was originally invented and engineered for the specific scope of reproducing the 3-dimensional sound of primary forests to broad audiences, within the framework of the long-term project “Fragments of Extinction”. The project is recording sonic fragments in the most ancient and biodiverse untouched equatorial rainforests left on Earth since 2002. The goal is to store for posterity 24-hour-long sound portraits of the intangible heritage of nature, and to share them immediately through deep-listening experiences for reflecting on the biodiversity and climate crises. We are strongly convinced that the medium of sensorial art will help in filling the gap between some of the most “unconfortable” issues of our time (the ongoing 6th mass extinction and the existential threat represented by climate change) and the ecological transition, now urgently required in all our societies.
Sonosfera® - Anfiteatro tecnologico per l'ascolto profondo di ecosistemi / Monacchi, David. - (2020).
Sonosfera® - Anfiteatro tecnologico per l'ascolto profondo di ecosistemi
David Monacchi
Primo
Conceptualization
2020
Abstract
Sonosfera® is a mobile spherical amphitheatre for 3D-sound sensorial and cognitive experiences. Based on an international patent and trademark, Sonosfera® can travel in contemporary art, science museums and cultural venues, representing a unique Italian innovation in design and technology. Sonosfera® can reconstruct sound environments with the highest spatial audio definition possible with current technology. 3-dimensional sound is delivered by 43+2 custom-built measurement quality loudspeakers, positioned in spherical geometry and a gallery with 60 seats within perfect internal acoustics. Sonosfera delivers a unique deep-listening sensorial and cognitive experience. The theatre is today a cultural platform for expressing multidisciplinary and multi-code programs, spanning from environmentally oriented journeys in biodiversity to voyages in Renaissance Italian art and music, from new ways of exploring aural and visual perception to applications in the areas of neurophysiology and psicoacoustics. The 3-dimensional sound and 360° visual experience delivered by a 24k-resolution circular screen is in fact radically different from the solipsistic 1-person VR immersions given by headsets: in Sonosfera® individuals sit together in the same cavea, as in an ancient Greek theatre; the experience is thus a shared virtual reality where humans are again guests of complex ecosystems, which breath and thrive all around them. Sonosfera®, in fact, was originally invented and engineered for the specific scope of reproducing the 3-dimensional sound of primary forests to broad audiences, within the framework of the long-term project “Fragments of Extinction”. The project is recording sonic fragments in the most ancient and biodiverse untouched equatorial rainforests left on Earth since 2002. The goal is to store for posterity 24-hour-long sound portraits of the intangible heritage of nature, and to share them immediately through deep-listening experiences for reflecting on the biodiversity and climate crises. We are strongly convinced that the medium of sensorial art will help in filling the gap between some of the most “unconfortable” issues of our time (the ongoing 6th mass extinction and the existential threat represented by climate change) and the ecological transition, now urgently required in all our societies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
