listen to scent here & the six seconds frame

Listen
as we forge ways, 
new and old,
of delivering olfactory imagination
in conjunction with
other media
 
-Lura Astor

 
backstory of the Green Aria Scent Opera

 click here in this interview you will hear
perfumer Christophe Laudamiel
musician Stewart Matthew,
who played with Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurdsson.
Neil Yule of Flaktwoods,
the company who created the scent delivery system/organ for the
Guggenheim presentation
Lovely!

if you have trouble with the link, click here "Scent Opera"

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illustration: Shimmer Lura Astor

more on sulfur

continuing from the post on Funky Green Imposter's sulfurous performance in the Green Aria at the Guggenheim  

an article of 3 March 2009 in click  The Sun on Vi-eggra notes findings on the importance of hydrogen sulphide ...


the smell of rotting eggs gives men erections?


And, in the Middle Ages, sulfur was among ingredients thought to protect against the plague. Leaf scents of the sulfur group include mustard, onions, garlic. 

Illustration: DNA Egg Lura Astor