The Auracle & Overtone Crown

The Auracle and Overtone Crown offer an opportunity for contemplation and visualization within a musical context. The viewer/listener wears the Overtone Crown (a wearable tuning fork instrument) while the forks are played with a bow by a performer. This creates a stereophonic field of shimmering overtones around the listener’s head. The listener is in the center of the musical experience, connected to the instrument. The Auracle is a life-size drawing that functions as a visualization of the sonic experience, and a mirror for the viewer/listener.

The Auracle by Shawn Feeney

The Auracle

Graphite and Conté charcoal on watercolor board, 30 x 40″, 2015

The Overtone Crown by Shawn Feeney

The Overtone Crown

Modified bicycle helmet, tuning forks, polymer clay, epoxy, paint, 2015

Overtone-Crown-Auracle-Robbie-Sweeny

Playing the Overtone Crown at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Photo by Robbie Sweeny.