Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

Toter Winkel [Blind Spot]

The Virtual Reality soundwalk Blind Spot by Music and Media major Leon Eckard (idea and implementation) and Klang und Realität major Nathalie Brum (architecture) plays with spatial and acoustic paradoxes that reveal our – often deceptive – perception. The space and sound of the soundwalk are inspired by Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher, English mathematician and theoretical physicist Roger Penrose and American cognitive scientist Roger Shepard.

The audiences for this VR work can move interactively through the virtual space and see whether they discover the blind spot. Deceptive perceptions can be found everywhere in human perception, and so Leon Eckard argues in his project that we should constantly question our own blind spot.

Blind Spot by Leon Eckard was an exam project for the Visual Music major at the Institute for Music and Media of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. The project was supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Marcus Schmickler.