The empathy of silence. Mute room at Faulder’s studio is exactly that, the empathy of silence…and memories. This wonderful architectural installation has been created with pink memory foam to retain the memories of fleeting moments; a pleasant quiet break from the rush of forgetfulness that we go through every moment. Everything is so crazy fast, we forget to empathize with moments of silence, and the mute room architecture gives us an unique scope to see and feel the silence that is hidden in every moment. In every moment of music to be precise, because the mute room sounds of experimental electronic music.
Commissioned by the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, the Mute Room architecture by design house Faulder’s Studio has been created to be a part of the Rooms for Listening exhibition. The gallery space in the Mute Room is filled with waves of reclining memory foam, softly lit by pink light; the foams themselves of a rustic pink color too. As experimental electronic music is played in the room, visitors are invited to recline on the memory foam waves to listen to the music. As the foam slowly absorbs the contours of the visitor’s movement (and also of rest from movement), the music seems to absorb in moments of intermittent unreality. This slow, yet electronic ambiance of the mute room is manifested perfectly by the memory foam. This retains the memory of presence for a fleeting moment of time before absorbing it. Call it transitional architecture if you intend, the mute room conveys its feelings perfectly.
Why use memory foam? What’s the relevance? We have all used memory foam before to cut out sounds during our air travel, putting the memory foam ear plugs that slowly takes the shape of the ear cavity for creating a personal mute space. Well, that’s the relevance.The muteness of the memory foam (what a beautiful name!) is manifested here in its full subtle glory, thereby filling the mute spaces of our mind with music. Mute memories that we do not wanna think of even, are smoothened and comforted in this pleasant mute room architecture.
Source: Faulders Studio