I composed intricate soundscapes to elicit social, body, violent, and phobic anxiety as well as sensory irritation. These sounds should be used in Exposure Therapy, a branch of psychiatry that encourages the user to confront their fears to ultimately overcome them, through habituation and catharsis.

35 participants were individually bombarded by the sounds panned across the 16-speaker Ambisonic array at the Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design Studio, whilst their heart rate, sweat secretion and breathing rate were recorded to accurately pinpoint the induced moments of anxiety. For Inter #5 a volunteer had their physiology recorded during a 5.1 mix of the Violence soundscape in a collective setting, to compare the differences in response.