Projects
What Do I Sound Like?
What Do I Sound Like?
An interactive biofeedback music tool exploring the unique sound of the human body.
What Do I Sound Like? is an experimental interactive music project built around a central question: how does a person sound, and how can their body generate music that feels uniquely theirs? An immersive interactive project that asks how a person might sound if their body became the instrument. Using biofeedback, fingerprint data, and responsive visual systems, it explores how physiological data can generate individually recognisable musical identities.
Experiment
£20,000
Aims of the project
The project explores new ways of creating an individual sound source derived directly from a person’s physical presence. This may involve translating fingerprint patterns into frequency data through spectrogram or Fourier analysis, or using a participant’s own recorded voice or bodily sound as foundational material.
That source is then shaped and transformed through additional biofeedback data such as pulse, movement, or muscle tension. The intention is not simple data mapping, but the development of a system where physiology meaningfully influences both the origin and evolution of sound.
Accessibility and inclusion are at the heart of the process. Through testing with disabled dancers, musicians, and participants from non musical backgrounds, the prototype is explored across a wide range of bodies and lived experiences. Visual and haptic feedback create multi sensory engagement, supporting diverse access needs.
Alongside collaborative exploration, the system will be developed as a live performance instrument within an electronic music context. The project expands possibilities for inclusive music making while investigating how biofeedback can reveal a person’s unique sonic signature.
Meet the artists
Liina Turtonen
Interactive Sound Designer
she/her
Liina Turtonen is an interactive sound designer and composer exploring the connection between the human body, sound, and image. She is especially interested in interaction itself: how music can be shaped through movement, touch, and physiological signals, and how our bodies can become instruments. Her work centres on biofeedback, sensors, and custom Max for Live systems, with a strong focus on accessibility and inclusive design. She collaborates with dancers with disabilities, creating responsive sonic environments for performance, while also composing for film and media.
Alongside her interactive practice, she is known as electronic artist LNA and educator LNA Does Audio Stuff, an Ableton Certified Trainer and author of Creative Confidence and Music Production published by Routledge. Originally from Finland, her work blends technology, creativity, and human experience.
Mark Towers
Electronic Musician
he/him
Mark Towers, is a UK-based electronic musician, developer, and educator. For this project, he acts as a mentor supporting Liina in developing custom Max for Live tools, guiding the programming process and helping translate artistic ideas into functional interactive systems.
