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We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced […]
We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O’Shea is an artistand inventor of theolfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool. InO’Shea’s installations,he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured. It’s multimedia of a new kind. Produced by Trent Wolbe.