Meridian Noise - Body, Sound & Scores in Space

About Us

We are an experimental duo working at the intersection of body, sound, and technology—exploring the body as a living instrument and antenna.

Our practice transforms subtle bio-electrical signals—heart rhythms, muscle tensions, neuronal pulses, and energetic flows mapped through the meridian system—into immersive soundscapes and performative spaces. Using electrodes, touch sensors, contact microphones, and theremins, we translate these anatomical frequencies and invisible connections beneath the skin into sonic art that reveals the unseen landscapes of the body.

Touch is our primary medium and artform: a dynamic dialogue where contact modulates tension, releases energy, and triggers cascades of synaptic activity. We investigate how embodied processes—breath, pulse, muscle contractions, and bioelectric fields—interact to create a living mapping of frequencies, particles, and molecules.

Our performances render these complex internal states audible and tangible, inviting participants to experience the body's hidden communication networks through sound and movement.

The Artists

Photo: Lars Gödeke

SAKO (they/them)

Bodywork & Care Interventions

SAKO is acupuncturist, somatic practitioner, care-activist and facilitator of events at IKSK, the Berlin institute for sexual culture and body research at Holzmarkt, but also works at the social creative hub Oma Om, in Neukölln. Sako is also the founder of Project Playground, a collective dedicated to the art of Play.

As facilitator and artist, SAKO creates workshops, performances and experiences within the spectrum of Movement & Play. Their focus lies on shapeshifting ideas and textures of intimacy and practices of care.

They are currently researching on formats linking art and health-care initiatives to create social and feminist platforms for wider accessibility to health knowledge.

Languages: German, English

www.sakosense.com

Ulf Schöneberg (he/him)

Scientist & Artist

Amongst being a Mathematician, Engineer and Data Scientist, the artist Ulf Schöneberg interweaves musical landscapes with graphic design and mappings, hacking into our minds and emotions.

Ulf took part at various organizations such as zbMATH, Humboldt University, Loomes and Ericsson, Akademie der Künste and UDK. His research interests include natural language processing methods for text analysis and neural networks of all kinds. In his artistic field he explores how brainwaves can sculpt both soundscapes and visuals in real-time.

Ulf aims to create sensory experiences, which create a broader accessibility to the intersection of neuroscience and art to shape futuristic proposals of social interactions and orientation.

Languages: German, English

ulfschoeneberg.de

What We Do

Through immersive scores and interactive compositions, we invite audiences and participants to become co-creators in a multisensory ecosystem of touch and sound.

Bodywork techniques such as massage and somatic release are coupled with real-time biosignal capture—EEG brainwaves, ECG heart rates, muscle tension patterns—to generate evolving sound environments that reflect internal physiological dynamics.

Our work situates the body as both source and receiver of sonic frequencies, probing the resonance between technological mediation and the organic. By mapping subtle shifts in tension, electrical pulses, and meridian flows, we create sound performances that reveal the invisible choreography of connection beneath the skin—between cells, between people, and between body and space.

Our Vision

We envision a future where the boundaries between body, sound, and technology dissolve into fluid, interactive fields of shared experience.

By amplifying the inaudible signals of our bodies and making touch an audible artform, we open pathways for deeper embodiment, collective care, and creative resonance.

Our work seeks to uncover the hidden symphony of frequencies that pulse through us—heartbeats, breath cycles, neuronal firings—and to translate these into sonic narratives that connect inner experience with external presence.

Featured Project

COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS

COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS is a tangible, performative and sensorial care experiment that integrates neuroscience, bodywork, sound art, and interactive technology into a living laboratory of connection and healing.

The Practice

In COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS, the body's internal landscapes become visible and audible through real-time biosignal mapping. EEG brainwaves, ECG heart rhythms, muscle tension patterns, and subtle touch sensors feed into a feedback loop where technological interfaces translate physiological data into immersive soundscapes and visual projections.

Alongside this, bodywork techniques such as Gua Sha—rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine and working through the meridian system—are employed both as therapeutic interventions and as sound-generating tools via contact microphones and sensors.

The Experience

This project explores how collective presence and tactile interaction affect individual and group wellbeing, shaping a shared energetic ecosystem. Audience and participants engage in simple, often non-verbal scores that guide movements and touches, which in turn modulate the sonic and visual environment.

The result is a continuously evolving performance where invisible connections beneath the skin—the flow of bioelectric currents, tensions, and releases—are sonically amplified and spatially mapped.

The Investigation

COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS is also a critical investigation into care, consent, and collective embodiment. It challenges conventional distinctions between performer and audience, therapy and art, inviting participants to co-create a living sculpture of sound, body, and space.

This project lays a foundation for future explorations into how embodied signals can be harnessed for healing, artistic expression, and communal resonance.

While COMMON WELLNESS NEXUS currently serves as our central platform, we are actively expanding into other sound installations and performances that deepen our inquiry into the body as antenna—transforming its signals into sonic architecture and immersive environments.

Our ongoing research embraces diverse technologies and somatic methodologies, envisioning a dynamic practice where bodies converse in sound, shaping spaces and relations in real time.