Foundation De Bovenkamer lab for technological research
Zutphen – De Bovenkamer, meeting place for people with incipient dementia, spending the next six months as a trial lab for research into sound frequencies…
Tactile sound and people with dementia
Zutphen – In the Bovenkamer in Zutphen, a new treatment is currently being developed for people with dementia…
Josef Rebbe
Josef Rebbe was born in 1975 in Meschede, Germany. From 1997 he studied Composition with Prof. Johannes Fritsch and Electronic Composition with Prof. Hans-Ulrich Humpert at the University of Music in Cologne, Germany. He completed this study in 2002 with the Bachelor of Music. In the same year, Josef worked as a synthesizer player at…
Joeri Bonsel
Joeri was born in Rotterdam in 1969 and grew up at the edge of the Dutch Veluwe. He graduated cum laude from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1996. During the following years, he realized various publications and a number of photo exhibitions, both at home and abroad, as an autonomous photographer.…
More details on the couch for healthcare providers
Care provision for dementia The design of the SOMASONO Sofa began in response to a request by the BrainCollective foundation: ‘Is it possible to utilize sound to provide stability for people with dementia by balancing the restlessness they experience due to its accompanying dysfunctional filtering of stimuli?’ In 2018, De Bovenkamer Foundation gave us the…
The making of…
The making of the SOMASONO Sofa At the beginning of May 2018 we, Josef and Joeri, started designing the SOMASONO Sofa. We began by researching the dimensions and ratios of various seats. We experimented with a cardboard scale model to find ways of integrating the tangible sound technology. During conversations with the BrainCollective foundation and…
More details on the sofa for users
More details on the sofa for users Who doesn’t know the feeling of restlessness: tension in your body arising from too many things in your head? When you experience this, we invite you to sit down on the SOMASONO Sofa and relax into our carefully tuned sounds. This massage brings you back into the body…
Applications
Possible applications of SOMASONO include workplaces where alertness and concentration are required, such as during night shifts or overtime, as well as institutions needing to create a sense of peaceful relaxation. Consider, for example, Yoga floors, snooze rooms with adapted furniture, couches, beds, and cushions. There are no limits to fantasy. Surprise us with your…