Music for Bodies. directed by Kaffe Matthews.

a research project.

Linking the sonic mapping of human bodies to architecture,

Through a practical study of bioresonance and interface building.

With the idea that this work will contribute to the creation of new techniques for composition and open doorways for new musical appreciation to the wider community.

To work with an open studio door policy through interactive feedback with a multidisciplinary think tank of professionals and collaboration with local and global communities. To ask the questions and experiment with the outcomes.

To thoroughly document and make available all aspects of the research online, including hosting at least 4 public discussion forums, accessible locally and globally.

Practically speaking, Music for Bodies will be a research project to make music and new physical interfaces for sonic appreciation through researching the shifting electromagnetic frequencies of the human body.

The project will run over 12 months in 3 cycles, the first cycle launching on Monday February 6th at 6.30pm with a multidisciplinary think tank of professionals discussing the projects essential questions.

Work will continue with a new instrument for the Sonic Bed being developed by the project's architect, bio resonance practitioner, programmer and Kaffe, which will be available, playing in the Bed, for the public to lie in at an open streamed forum at Annette Works during 3rd week in March,(exact date to be confirmed).

Following this, Kaffe will run free workshops facilitating anyone wanting to make music for the bed using the instrument until the end of April.

Following this research period, 2 cycles will continue, firstly with a think tank(as before) and then a new interface being built, addressing the questions that came up during the first cycle.

Then the cycle will continue in 2 interactive strands feeding each other through a process of continually asking questions as follows:

The 2 strands will be:

I.

To develop new prototypes, interfaces/spaces, for music appreciation which interface via physical contact to the human body, carried out through collaboration with a team of professionals, learning from the sonic armchairs Kaffe has made so far.

II

To research and develop an understanding of the electromagnetic frequency maps of the human body and of the effect of different sonic vibrations on its different areas, through a practical study with a bio-resonant practitioner.

To use what is learnt to build a new software instrument, a bio sonic mapping processor, (bsmp) collaborating with a programmer and acoustician mentored by an architect.

To use the developing bsmp to make music with members of the community for the prototype interfaces. To install and test these interfaces in the community, eg the laundrette, café, bank, chip shop. To then pull it back to studio, evaluate, ask questions, another open forum, think tank and move the process on.

All aspects of the research will be documented on the website www.musicforbodies.net which will be launched on November 21^rst 2005.

This research time is enabled by Kaffe’s NESTA Dreamtime Fellowship, 2005-2006.