Building on research by Diana Deutsch, Albert Bregman, Maryanne Amacher and others, The Sick Sense is an ongoing project exploring the limits of the perceptual system. These projects stimulate otoacoustic and flicker phenomena and auditory and visual hallucinations while searching for stimulus patterns that deactivate the brain’s default mode network, switching the brain into the role of ecstatic perceiver.
Each piece revolves around a system of audio patches built in PureData. Information from the audio patches is sent to a visual synthesizer built in OpenFrameworks that responds to the audio data.
