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- **Posted:** 2023-08-09T15:32:59.000+00:00
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See & experience Haptic Voices this Friday! vibrafusionlab

HAPTIC VOICES WALL 2023
July 14 - Sept 29
126 Prototype Gallery

“Haptic” - a way of experiencing and understanding things through the sense of touch. When you use your hands or fingers to explore objects or surfaces, you use your haptic sense.

VibraFusionLab pushes the boundaries of haptic technology by creating an art installation that is an interactive hybrid-online venue. It works by having audio information, such as voice, music, or sound effects transformed into vibrations, allowing visitors to feel the music or sound through their haptic senses.

They do this through a large scale ten channel vibrotactile wall. Visitors are invited to stand against the wall to experience vibrations that are controlled by online participants. Online participants will chant, hum, and vocalize into the microphones on their computers as the sound is played through the vibrotactile transducers in the wall in real time. Online participants are able to control the position and location of the vibrations, manipulating through intensity and frequency components of the voice, or through the interface controlled by the participants’ mouse.

In addition three commissioned sound compositions, specifically designed for the vibrotactile experience by Toronto composer John Gzowski , Deaf Irish composer Ailís Ní Ríain and one of the Haptics Voices creators, Jim Ruxton. The online platform facilitating participant interaction was created by Hamilton-based web designer Simon Lebrun.

Using vibration as the final output, Haptic Voices is equally accessible to Deaf and hard of hearing communities to experience the wall. With a camera in the gallery facing the haptic wall, online participants are able to view how they are interacting with participants in the gallery. VibraFusionLab has not previously engaged with an online audience, marking this major installation as the first of its kind, transporting global ‘voices’ into an immersive tactile body experience.

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