Textures
Ideas for structures around which music can be composed for the sense of touch
Room Textures
A windowless room's walls (not the ceiling and floor) are covered in different textures and heated to different temperatures. The whole room must be the same colour. Different textures and temperatures can be juxtaposed or mingled together. The room should be lit from a light source in the centre of the room, which should give approximately equal amounts of light to each wall.
The visitors to the room should be free to enter and leave the room, and experience the room as they wish.
Wall Textures
Different textures and temperatures cover a slowly revolving cylindrical wall. Around the whole of the revolving wall are a number of booths, big enough to hold only one person. To experience the revolving wall a person must be situated in a booth. Each booth is lighted separately.
OR
The wall is fixed and the people move past the wall on a conveyor belt.
Object Textures
An object is manufactured with differetn textures and temperatures covering it.
N.B. FOR ALL IDEAS
For as much as possible, only aspects affecting the sense of touch should be variable. All aspects relating to any other sense should remain as constant as possible.
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