Team:
Creative direction, sound design and hardware prototyping: Sara Lenzi
Creative consultant: Arianna Ulian

LORELEI designed and developed the prototype of “Foneydia – the sonic bed” for the Italian wellness manufacturer Hypnos.
The client request was to design a sonic experience for the bed customers, an experience able to convey and amplify the relaxing sensation given by the particular bed structure.
We worked on a double level: the sound design and the sound diffusion system. Both aspects had “relaxation” as the main goal. On one side, we worked with brainwave entrainment and infrasound to produce a sound content really able to relax the listener. The result is a soundscape apparently composed by relaxing sounds, but also containing Alpha waves that help our brain to relax, accompanying the customer towards sleep. On the other side, the sound diffusion system uses transducers instead of traditional speakers, so as to transform the bed structure itself into a wooden sonic board. The sound is diffused via smooth vibrations all over the bed structure, to convey an immerse sensation of sound.

Listen to the Foneydia soundscape:

Team:
Live performer: Sara Lenzi, Marco Galardi, Gianpaolo D’Amico
Visual: Tommaso Arosio

LORELEI performend live for the New Year’s Eve big event of the Florence town administration in Santa Maria Novella square. A pubic event followed by more than 30.000 people and repeated for the city “white night” in April, 2011.
The live performance was dedicated to Giovanni Michelucci, the italian well-known architect who in Florence realized may of his masterpieces – the Santa Maria Novella train station is just an example.

Listen to a demo:

Team:
Concept, sound design and creative supervision: Sara Lenzi
Music, sound design and interaction development with Max/MSP: Vinicius Giusti
Techcnial supervision: Luigi Mastandrea

LORELEI designed the interactive sound installation “Sonic room” for the architecture and design studio X2 + Designwerkstatt. The sound interactive installation involved the public in the the studio rooms sonification process, giving a sonic life to the objects that populated the room itself. The sound installation reacted to the environmental sounds, that were spatially diffused in the rooms using the objects as sonic boards, thanks to mechanical tranducers pursposely placed. The sound identity of the architecture and design studio was therefore created by their customers themselves, always renovating and always interactive, but deeply connected with the designers works that populated the studio: an always-changing but deeply rooted sound identity.

Team:
3D sound design: Sara Lenzi
Music: Marco Galardi
Visual animation: Tommaso Cattabrini

LORELEI co-created the multi-sensory experience for kids with the Japanese agency Metadesign, for Fujitsu exhibition at the Tokyo Designers Week.
We worked on a multi-level project:
3D soundscapes were provided as a sensory stimulation for interactive workshops. The public was required to were headphones for an immersive 3D experience, and subsequently to connect the sound experience with other senses.
Lorelei designed as well the soundscape multi-channel diffusion for the exhibition space, as well as the music and sound design for the exhibition concept demo video.
All the sounds used for the video were recorded by Lorelei team at the Japan Traditional Instruments Archive at Tokyo University, in order to created a deep cultural link with the Fujitsu brand and the Japanese culture.

3D soundscapes examples (wear your headphones!):

Team:
Marco Galardi: sound designer and sound engineer
Sara Lenzi: sound designer and project manager
Michael Byrne: live performer
Giulia Massimiliani: chef
Giulio Bettarini: sommelier

Foodfrequency is the new sensory immersive experience dedicated to food, wine, Italian cuisine and 3D sounds. Visit our website to know more about the experience.

To know more, download our brochure:

Foodfrequency brochure english

Listen to 3D soundscapes (with headphones on!):

Team:
Creative director: Sara Lenzi
Sound designer: Luigi Mastandrea
Creative consultant: Arianna Ulian
Engineer: Gianpaolo D’Amico
Software prototyping: Damiano Meacci@Tempo Reale

Lorelei worked with the global leading manufacturer of car horns FIAMM to design sounds for the electric cars. Following the growing public concern about safety and silence in the electric car industry, FIAMM decided to invest in researching how the car of the future will sound like. Lorelei worked as a consultancy for developing the software prototype of the new device, and what’s more important, we designed the sound of the future. In November 2010 we were invited to present the case at the annual Audio Branding congress in Hamburg. Download the full case history  and read the complete report on our blog.

Download the “Sound for electric vehicle” paper.

Donwload the case-study.

Team:
Project, music and surround sound: Sara Lenzi

Lorelei designed the new soundscape for the temporary multi-sensory structure “Luminarium”, designed by the Anglo-French team Architects of Air. Lorelei has been asked to create new sound contents able to be integrated with the extraordinary features of the structure: a very large area (1500 m), an experience dominated by the brightness, colors and tactile sensations that the unique fabric used to build the temporary structure transmits to visitors. Lorelei has opted for a soundscape in surround sound using audio broadcasting systems already in place (therefore, with no additional cost for the client). The soundscape uses specific sound contents that cover the background noise due to the structure itself, and integrate with the environment enhancing the sensory experience.

Team:
Sound design and surround sound: Sara Lenzi
Music: Marco Galardi
Software: Damiano Meacci@Tempo Reale

Lorelei created the sound dimension for the new sensory experience MUVI. Dedicated to the retail industry, shopping malls, museums, supermarket corners, virtual reality parks, MUVI is a self-contained structure able to manage 8 channels soundscapes, fragrances, videos and holographic images, multitouch surfaces and light for an immersive experience.

Lorelei team produces the 8 channels surround sounscapes library, the sound content management software and the music and sound design for demo videos. MUVI is currently a prototype undergoing industrialization process.

Team:
Sound design and project management: Sara Lenzi
Sound design and sound engineering: Marco Galardi
Live music: Michael Byrne
Chef: Giulia Massimiliani
Photographs: Tommaso Cattabrini

The multi-sensory and synesthetic experience Foodfrequency is the new project by LORELEI and Kitchen Wishes, designed from an idea of Marco Galardi and Giulia Massimiliani.  For the D.O.P. (protected origin) products producers’ association  from Trentino (Italy),  we designed a multi-sensory tasting experience of their locally grown italian products famous around the world:  berries, apples and wine. Based on advanced research in the field of synesthesia and cross-modal interactions, the Foodfrequency experience creates an immersive environment where the tasting of dishes and  carefully chosen ingredients is associated with the listening (via headphones) to the sounds of the product’s origin and identity, in 3D mode . The 3d audio experience is alternated with a  surround sound live performance (without headphones), designed on purpose to emphasize the sensory food and wine experience.

Listen to an example of local products’ identity sound recorder with 3D sound technique (with your headphones on!):

Team:
Lecturer and soundwalking guide: Sara Lenzi

A soundwalk experience for children (and their parents) guided by Sara Lenzi in Florence’s natural parks. Based on LORELEI studies of the city soundscape, the experience has the double goal of disseminating the awareness about the sound world we live in and the acoustic pollution, and to stimulate children towards the concept of information architecture of sound. Aftwer the walk, children are encoraged to fix the memory of sounds on a paper “sonic map”, following different methods and techniques. During 2012 Sara will be conducting several soundwalk laboratories in Florence.