A device on the threshold of flesh and code, evoking a new form of communion. Here faith is not whispered in a vacuum: it is traced in movement, sung in data, embodied in sound waves.
The days of worn-out prayer books and silent supplications are gone. Instead: hands moving through the electric air, mapping beliefs to music. Aurora‘s four ultrasonic sensors, like invisible eyes, detect every movement and gesture, translating them into evolving soundscapes that breathe, pulse, grow. In this act, the user is both conductor and believer, weaving sound from presence, evoking the intangible through the tangible. It is a new kind of devotion, encoded in microcontrollers and MIDI signals, mediated by the delicate attraction of technology.
But what happens when the sacred is no longer pronounced but calculated? Aurora deepens spiritual intimacy while unraveling the threads of tradition. As bodies kneel before it, drawn into meditation, one question remains: does technology become the deity or simply the vessel?
The Seeed XIAO ESP32S3 microcontroller listens. It processes hand movements, mapping them to scales, choosing tones, sending the data to Ableton Live like a modern oracle transcribing prophecies. Aurora offers no answers, but evokes connections. Between flesh and algorithm, between memory and innovation, between the spiritual and the synthetic. It invites reflection: What is faith when it is mediated by circuits? What is devotion in a world where machines dream?
Spirituality has always been fluid and shifts with the tides of culture and time. Aurora stands at the edge of the future and invites us to kneel, not in submission, but in co-creation, play and wonder. The machine listens. The hands move. The prayer begins again.
IN COLLABORATION WITH
UAL Central Saint Martins