SlowPitchSound DJ Chel Paterson created a sinuous sonic trail for a deeply poetic experience. Gwenyth: William painted fully immersive projected portraits of healing 'forest medicine' using the latest in video mapping and design technologies. Who is the team behind the Rallentando experience? Rallentando aims to offer a restorative experience of a virtual nature to return to a balanced state of being in order to reestablish the central nervous system and the internal systems of the body to experience the opposite of our habitual fight or flight response (or the acute stress response) due to excessive stimuli found in most contemporary urban environments. Rallentando was, in part, informed by artist Olafur Eliason, in particular his installation The Weather Project at the Tate Museum. Research such as that presented in This is your Brain on Nature reveals that contemplation while in natural surroundings is associated with lower cortisol, blood pressure and reduced heart rate. Gwenyth: Rallentando is a response to our experience of “hyper living” and extensive research on the importance of nature on our physical and mental well-being. Here’s what Gwenyth and William had to say about the installation: What led you to the idea to join projected scenes of nature, live music, performance artists, and a collective heartbeat to produce Rallentando? It is an environment that creates calming effects through changes in the nervous system-in the same way as exposure to nature has been proven to do.”

Rallentando is 'based on the Japanese idea of Shinrin-Yoku, or forest bathing. Gwenyth and William, co-artistic directors of Out of the Box Productions, recently installed Rallentando at Hub14 in Toronto. Rallentando was created by Gwenyth Dobie, with William Mackwood ( wmackwood) leading the technical integration. Using a combination of images, sounds, and interactive performance, 'the audience experiences a gradual slackening of tempo, leaving behind the distractions of contemporary urban life.' Rallentando is an interactive installation that uses Vuo to invoke a multi-sensory virtual forest.

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