Interactive Art 4: Sonic Cradle




"Jay Vidyarthi has created a human-computer interface called Sonic Cradle to help people achieve mindfulness, by using breathing patterns to create responsive soundscapes. 

Vidyarthi is currently attending Simon Fraser University to pursue a Master’s degree at the Surrey School of Interactive Arts and Technology. He has managed to uniquely fuse together technology, music and meditation. This is done by suspending an individual in a dark chamber and then taking their meditative breathing patterns to output sound patterns. Sound bites such as falling rain, guitar, flute, meditative chimes and even spoken poetry are used. "
--- https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/sonic-cradle

Jay Vidyarthi ames use of a room deprived of any other sensory stimulus, a breathing apparatus and sound to create a responsive soundscape meant to allow people to enter a meditative state. This is interesting as he designs a space where there is only sound to create an awareness of one's state of mind in response to the sound. The space that he creates actively interacts with the user while the user interacts with the space. The result of this is a meditative space that allow the user to relax and reflect that relaxed state of mind to the environment. In a way, this installation allows the user to project one's emotions into the environment while being affected by the environment. The idea of a dark room to allow one's imagination to run free is rather interesting as despite being deprived of most of our senses we are still being affected by an environment we generate in our minds.

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