Projects
Symphony Sensoria: Inner sensory landscapes of a Neurodivergent mind.
Symphony Sensoria: Inner sensory landscapes of a Neurodivergent mind.
Symphony Sensoria translates the intangible essence of neurodivergent lived experience into transportive, interactive landscapes through responsive projection and spatial audio.
This project explores how neurodiverse audiences can engage with a responsive environment through agency, safety, and emotional resonance.
Experiment
£20,000
Aims of the project
Building on my earlier Explore funding, Symphony Sensoria is born from a compulsion to develop transportive environments that authentically reflect neurodivergent sensory processing, memories, and synaesthesia. By experimenting with multiple sensory modalities simultaneously, I aim to render internal experiences into physical landscapes. This involves projecting onto layered surfaces, including sheer fabrics, to create dynamic visuals that evoke the essence of sensory experiences: light fracturing through trees, dancing in a kaleidoscope of colours, or the heavy pressure of an approaching storm.
The core of this experiment is to prototype and test interactive projection as a primary tool for embodied agency. By using Light-Tracking and Proximity-Based mapping, participants can interact with visuals and ambient spatial soundscapes through their own movement and touch. These interactive elements create a responsive ecosystem that offers curiosity, warmth, and safety, transforming the audience from passive viewers into active participants within a personalised reality where neurological processing is not just understood, but felt.
Meet the artist
Steph Cormack
Lead artist
she/her
Steph Cormack is an intuitive abstract artist creating immersive art that explores the nuances of sensory perception. Her recent interactive works invite audiences to engage with their unique sensory experiences, encouraging personal reflection and celebrating diverse perspectives.
Over the past year she has extended her practice into immersive arts, experimenting with projection mapping, spatial sound, tactile materials and responsive environments. These experiments have allowed her to translate moments of sensory intensity into multi-sensory installations that invite curiosity, emotional connection and a deeper understanding of neurodiverse perception.
