Transmissions
XMTR Festival 26: The Sensation Gap
Karina Townsend and Caitlin Kennedy (UK, 2026)
Karina Townsend, Caitlin Kennedy (UK, 2026)
3min
The Sensation Gap - what is it like to perceive the world anew through artificial means?
This installation took you into a sonic space about hearing lost and found - feel free to move about in it. More and more of us are going to require a sensory aid at some point in our life. But few people think about that journey until it happens to them. And as we master the art of repairing impaired senses (through ever better miniatures microphones and deep learning assisted sound isolation), we are inadvertently opening the door to something far more radical: sensory expansion. Three streams play concurrently recreating different aspects of our journeys with hearing aids and the reawakening to nature’s soundscape that ensued.
Produced by Karina Townsened and Caitlin Kennedy
An installation at the XMTR Audio Arts Festival 2026