PROVISIONAL ART SPACE [experiments in olfactory and musical composition]
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Gray Area Lab - San Francisco

PASlab is the educational arm of PAS and consists of a series of sensory focused workshops that explore smell, sound, touch and smell as artistic media. Smelling Sounds, the 2019 Gray Area workshop in San Francisco explored the natural partnership between smell and sound. Both senses use parallel systems of organization, notation and composition. They are also two of our most primal and emotive senses. By using Sonic Pi, a live coding environment and olfactory smell notes from a perfume organ, we will create our own multi-sensory compositions.  The pieces, produced individually or in small teams, will be curated into a group installation which addresses the possibilities of inducing synesthesia through creative associations of sound and scent.