In recent months Matthew has been developing the installation A-D-S-R, an interactive haptic installation that explores how photographs—a medium which ordinarily only affect a single sense—can be turned into sound and haptic feedback via the use of a SUBPAC.

After the loss of his father in April 2019, Matthew investigated how mapping image to sound could be a way of linking various artefacts left of his father. This included an image and audio of his father playing the guitar and the guitar itself. Although photographs are a helpful way in preserving someone’s memory, they freeze a moment in time. The work investigates how using the digital data stored in an image—in the form of pixel data—and recycling it into new forms, can be a way of reanimating what was locked in stasis.

More information on the installation and the process behind it can be found in the chapter, Hearing and Feeling Memories: Connecting Sound, Image and Haptic Feedback to Create a Multisensory Experience of Photographs, as part of Innovation in Music, Future Opportunities.