ASMR *contemporary music ensemble* [tapping] [scratching] [brushing] [whispering] -
Neo Hülcker

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is an experience, often described as a "tingling sensation" that starts on your scalp and moves down the back of your neck and upper spine. There are countless YouTube videos in which ASMR artists try to trigger the tingles by using amplified sounds of whispering, touching objects or materials, eating, caressing a pet, or by typical roleplay like getting a haircut at the hairdresser or getting certain parts of your body checked up by a doctor. Fake intimacy, postpornography, and recontextualisation of everyday life objects are enacted to cause pleasure and relaxation.

Sound is becoming a fetish - not only in contemporary music, but also in non-artistic households in which people examine their environments while searching for the next sound trigger. How can ASMR become a compositional material And what happens if these two worlds of contemporary music and ASMR encounter each other

Can contemporary music be ASMR and can ASMR be contemporary music

Neo Hülcker