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Scent Activities Introducing Cherry Forever and B-A-N-A-N-A-S-! scratch and sniff scented wallpaper, designed with Michael Angelo of Wonderland Beauty Parlor Fame. Both designs are a pop art homage to iconic screen printing, with the added twist of scratch and sniff scents! Flavour Paper is known for creating conversational hand-screened and digital wallpaper that flips tradition on its head. Since opening in 2003, their off-the-wall vision and passion for pushing the innovation envelope with unexpected materials and new technology have garnered awards world-wide. Go ahead and give the wallpaper a try! To complement the smell of the wallpaper, viewers can also enjoy the three smell pods! Boko, who also designed the interactive sandbox, created the scent generators to respond to visitors' proximity, dosing the air with a fine mist and fragrance when approached. With smells selected to trigger fond memories, the scent exhibit aims to help guests explore with their noses. Lines Put your preconceptions about what music is and how music should sound aside for a moment and indulge in LINES – participatory art with interactive musical instruments! In LINES, Swedish sound artist and artistic researcher Anders Lind explores lines as musical instruments. Lines attached to the wall, on the floor, and hanging from the ceiling in combination with sensors and electronics form three novel musical instruments. No musical experience is required to perform. LINES is a piece of participatory art, which is best explored in groups, but could also be experienced on your own. The goal of LINES is to create a platform that enables new forms of musical interaction, exploration of new artistic expressions, and provides unique and inspiring musical experiences. Anders Lind is a sound artist/composer and an associate professor of music at Umeå University in Sweden. Lind creates interactive pieces and installations and composes music for orchestras, choirs, ensembles, and soloists, preferably in combination with the use of electronics. His works and research are often routed within the fields of interactive sound art, animated notation, and audience participation. Mobilephoneorchestra.com is another recognized project by Lind, with an aim to develop a new performance practise for electronic polyphonic contemporary art music. LINES has been exhibited in different museums all over the world Timbre Space Timbre is the quality of sound that distinguishes instruments from each other, makes our individual voices unique, that defines the difference between the various sounds we put together to make language. It could be considered the texture or colour of sound. Timbre Space, presented by artist David Rokeby, is an invisible architecture of timbre that one can explore physically. All 512 sounds that makeup Timbre Space are tuned to the musical note ‘F’ across a range of octaves. These sounds range from the purest sine tones, through the slightly more complex timbres of classical instruments, to snippets of sustained notes from popular music, all the way to complex machine sounds that get their tonal ‘F’ from the oscillations of industrial motors. David Rokeby's early work Very Nervous System (1982-1991) was a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments. It was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1986. Several of his works have addressed issues of digital surveillance, including Taken and Sorting Daemon. Works such as The Giver of Names and n-cha(n)t critically examine the differences between human and artificial intelligence. Sound Just like your other senses, hearing occurs through communication with your brain. In this case, hearing is actually a mechanical sense. This means that your ears turn physical movements into electrical signals that communicate with your brain and translate into what we understand as ‘sound.’ Sound travels and is communicated through sound waves. We hear to detect the presence of a sound, but also to identify the location and type of sound and its characteristics, such as whether it is loud or soft. Your ears are a complex system, but it is generally broken down into the outer ear, middle ear, and inner ear. For your ear to work fully, all of the parts must work well. Deafness is caused by one or more parts of the ear not functioning properly. In your inner ear, you have around 15,000 microscopic hair cells that are vital to your ability to hear. These hairs catch and carry sound to the auditory nerve, which then communicates with the brain, which in turn interprets the sound. These hairs are different from the ones on your head - once they’re gone, they don’t grow back. Losing these hairs can result in hearing loss. There are many causes of hearing loss and deafness, but one way to prevent the loss of these important hairs is to avoid overexposure to loud noises. Taste Human taste is experienced through the five taste qualities: sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami or savoury. Taste buds are tiny structures found primarily on the tongue, but also the roof of the mouth and throat, that detect taste. These taste buds contain taste receptor cells and are located around what are known as papillae. The sensory cells in our taste buds are activated when we eat and, in turn, our brain interprets the taste quality. All humans have thousands of taste buds in their mouths, but the actual number varies from person to person, with the average range being from 2,000 to 10,000 taste buds. Although the sense of taste provides information on the nutritional quality of what we ingest, the human experience of eating is made complete by the interaction of all five senses. The sights, sounds and smells of food prepare the body for the next meal, and when food is placed in the mouth, taste, temperature and touch receptors screen for quality and intensity. For this reason, Ageusia, the loss of the sense of taste, is often accompanied by the loss of other senses. It is most commonly experienced alongside anosmia, or the loss of smell, since taste is also experienced with your nose. Hashtag, Bitesizedclay is a playful exploration of the art of food through plasticine sculpture, styling, and photography. Jenn Robeson began making clay food and photographing it as a participant in the 100 days project - an international arts movement focused on making art a daily practice. Her clay sculptures and fine art prints have been exhibited at The Art Room in Toronto, the Terroir Food Symposium at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and featured in Toronto Life Magazine and BuzzFeed Canada. Jenn Robeson's art bridges multiple mediums; photography, textiles, clay sculpture and lots and lots of crafts. She likes to explore the relationship between little and big, real and imagined, lighthearted and profound. Play is an integral part of her artistic process. Jenn is a self-taught artist. Donut The infamous sprinkle donut was created by THEMUSEUMS own Brianne Casey! Take pictures with the giant donut and tag THEMUSEUM in your posts online! Tour Complete This completes the tour of Spectrum, be sure to enjoy other exhibitions and programs taking place at THEMUSEUM and we hope to see you back soon! Thank you for joining me on the tour!