ScentSymphony is a movie without images.
28 minutes of prerecorded music [by Erich Berghammer] is paired with 43 precisely timed natural scents.
Carefully selected and coordinated scent sequences are fanned through a venue and aligned with sound to create a realistic experience of travel, inner images, blissful emotions, and associations.
ScentSymphony is a unique synesthetic experience that creates an inner journey to locations that are defined by an exotic ''Other"—that is represented precisely as possessing a fragrant identity.
Storyline
A wooden ship is anchored in a European country. It is unclear whether we are in the past or the future. We approach the ship and smell the sea and the wood of the ship. The sailors board the ship, and we smell gin. Monks sing prayers for a safe and successful journey. The ship is blessed with incense. The journey begins. We sail across the sea to the African continent, somewhere in West Africa; wood fire, coffee, and fauna appear. We go ashore, we experience the scents of a village, and then we sail to South America, and experience fragrant tobacco, lime, cacao. From South America, the journey continues to the Arab world, where the air is fragranced with oud wood and cardamom. We meet a prince whose perfume is overwhelmingly delicious. Next, we travel to China, where we experience euphoric citrus scents and are served tea. Then we head to the Indian subcontinent, where we visit temples, a market, and a tropical park.
How Does It Work
Authentic and traditional certified-organic scents, spices, herbs, woods, resins, incense mixes, essences, and extracts drawn from Europe, Africa, Arabia, South America, China, and India combine with original sound and music to form an exotic, mystical, and multi sensory unity that challenges the perception of time and space.
ScentSymphony#2: Lyra
ScentSymphony#2: Lyra, is a film without [outer] images
43 precisely timed certified-organic scents, spices, herbs, woods, resins, incense mixes, essences, and extracts are paired with 28 minutes of prerecorded sound and music [by Erich Berghammer] to form a multi-sensory unity, accompanied by the appearance of inner images, associations and blissful emotions.
Plot
The daughter of a scientist on a distanced planet activates a probe from earth with an enclosed olfactory and acoustic message.
Storyline
Lyra, the daughter of a scientist on a distant planet, activates a probe from outer space—possibly from Earth. An olfactory and auditory voyage through time and space begins; the device paints a picture of the planet Earth, where there are oceans, continents, countries, and cultures. Lyra smells and hears the sound of the sea, singing monks, fragrant incense, flowers, fire, animals, plants, the scent of spices, delicacies, and blossoming trees; she boards a plane, lands in a city, meanders through a market, observes buildings, visits a temple, and wanders through a tropical garden.
How Does It Work?
Carefully selected and coordinated sequences of natural scents are fanned through a darkened venue and aligned with sound to create a realistic and synesthetic experience that challenges the perception of time and space.
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