Muse is an experimental design project studying the musical perception of human through three installation experiences. People are encouraged to interact with the installations and explore the music visually with their own perception. We try to understand how people understand music here.

The name ‘Muse’ is taken from the inspiration of Greek mythology. The Greek goddesses of art & music are the Muses. They are known as one entity, though there are actually 9 of them and each is unique in their own way. It resonances with the concept of perception as perception could be understood universally to some extent, though still unique among each of us.

“Aesthetic” is an abstract word seems can be understood by visual or other senses. With the culture of Hong Kong, “Aesthetic” seems only to have a connection with art and design, this word is hard to realize by the people who without the fundamental knowledge of art and design, they believe there are distant with “Aesthetic”. In fact, aesthetic is a sensation of human, we can use aesthetic by any sensory organs, even emotion. This is a kind of unique sensation stimulation in our daily life, and the pleasure is the proof of aesthetic that exists in our life.

In order to investigate how people generate aesthetic in life, this project invited a group of interviewees to do the daily aesthetic test. After the test and literature review, there are three insights were found: nature, memories and stimulation, moreover, the main inspiration of aesthetic comes from daily life.