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Breathe: Sound and Stillness
Breathe: Sound and Stillness
This project explores how immersive film and spatial sound can create moments of calm within healthcare environments. Through layered natural imagery and experimental audio recording techniques, the project investigates how gentle sensory interventions might support wellbeing for patients, staff, and visitors.
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£5,000
Aims of the project
This project builds on my ongoing series of contemplative landscape and nature-based films, expanding the work into immersive audiovisual environments. During this project, I will experiment with spatial audio recording techniques — including Ambisonics and binaural sound — to create layered soundscapes that deepen the experience of moving image.
Working in collaboration with audio specialists, I will explore how different playback approaches function in healthcare or community wellbeing contexts. Early developments may be shared in suitable local settings, offering opportunities to reflect on how immersive sound and image can nurture calm, presence, and gentle restoration in recovery spaces.
This period of research and experimentation will shape the future direction of Breathe, developing new possibilities for immersive work across arts, health, and environmental settings.
Meet the artist
Simon Taylor
Lead Artist and Researcher
he/him
I am a visual artist and creative photographer exploring themes of nature, place, and environment through sketching, printmaking, and both still and moving imagery. My practice often involves collaboration with community-based environmental and wellbeing groups, creating reflective artworks that encourage deeper connection with the natural world. I am interested in how attention, stillness, and creative engagement can reveal quieter ways of seeing and being.
