The art of sound

WHILE sound artists have been around for a while, Italian artist Maurizio Martinucci's art practice isn't just about creating sound, but also showing what it looks and feels like.

Just before he came here for an arts residency at the National University of Singapore, the artist - who goes by the moniker TeZ - created a "performative environment" where the public get to wear specially designed garments. The wearables were outfitted with various sensing devices that enabled them to interact with the performance space. For about 20 minutes, the visitors felt sound and vibration, thus giving them an other-bodily experience as their vision and feeling became increasingly blurred.

In another one of his projects, TeZ captured how soundwaves affected water and he used laser lights to illuminate that in a dome - giving visitors an immersive environment as they looked up to amorphous, colourful soundwaves.