Waves of Us

Welcome to my journey for my Master’s thesis at New York University for the Integrated Design and Media Program. Waves of Us is an installation art piece derived completely from 2 users brainwaves data, creating a unique magical experience and moment.

Who are you? Who are we? What can we create when our minds come together? How can we blend together? This sonic experience aims to focus on a unique moment when two human minds come together to create a multisensory experience, which can only be created in this exact moment in life, showing us the importance of fleeting moments and our minds reaction to stimuli. An experience that is purely driven by two people’s minds and the synchrony between one another.  

Sana’s journey in creating Waves of Us was inspired by two moving experiences in her life: a sound bath in Bali, Indonesia and a sound sculptured theater in San Francisco, California that is experienced in pitch darkness. Both experiences had common characteristics in that they are based on impact to an individual by sound and vibrations. This paired with Sana’s user experience background and constant desire to understand humans on a psychological level, pushed her to see what else she could explore when it came to human beings, which is where Biofeedback comes in. Biofeedback is the study of humans based on body functions in order to create the best personalized experience.