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    Global Resonance · Scent Echo      2025
     Ambisonic Spatial Sound (IKO icosahedral loudspeaker system)
     Multisensory Interactive Installation
     Collaborative work by Jiaye Wang, Aobo Gao, Peifeng Cai, Xiaoya Zhao, Han Zhang and Hao Liu      
     
      This work was first presented as the opening performance at the Open City Documentary Festival 2025 in London.
      Click the link below to experience the installation.



Global Resonance · Scent Echo is a multisensory installation that reimagines the form of a lottery drawing machine to explore globalization, cultural exchange, and embodied perception. A single transparent acrylic sphere, filled with spices from different regions, is set in motion by airflow generated from concealed fans. As it rolls and collides, it releases shifting combinations of scent and sound—an evolving composition shaped by movement and chance.

The sound design was spatialized through a 20-faced IKO loudspeaker array, enabling Ambisonic projection of scent-triggered sonic textures within the installation. The spherical configuration of the IKO system allowed sounds to rotate, diffuse, and interact dynamically with the audience’s position, enhancing the work’s sense of sensory immersion and spatial intimacy.

Sensors embedded within the structure activate additional auditory layers as viewers approach, creating a dynamic interplay between presence and perception. By intertwining smell and sound—two senses often overlooked in exhibition spaces—the work invites deeper engagement with memory, emotion, and the body.

The installation evokes the fluidity of cultural identity, the randomness of connection, and the invisible forces that shape our sensory experience. It transforms an everyday mechanism of chance into a poetic system of resonance, where motion, scent, and sound intertwine to form a shared sensorial landscape of diversity and exchange.



Poster from the work’s first exhibition at Open City Documentary Festival 2025, London.


Documentation from the work’s first exhibition
Production Notes and Sketches Creative Process Photos



Special Thanks:  


UCL & Rich Mix Gallery.