#Auditory senses professional#

She studied how various combinations of wine with music and sound influenced groups of people’s reactions. She recently completed an interdisciplinary PhD that explored the influence of sound and music on the perception of wine aroma and flavour across the fields of art, sensory science, and psychology. Touch plays a part in the experience of the wine in the mouth, through its weight and texture, but what we touch while we’re drinking it affects our perception of its texture in particular.' 'We rarely drink wine in silence, and the sounds around us actually influence our perception of its aromas, taste and texture. It has been suggested that drinking wine should be viewed as a multisensory phenomenon given it involves all of people’s main five senses.

'When I realised that it wasn’t just me, but a universal phenomenon, I started creating multisensory experiences using flavour and sound for a wider audience.'

#Auditory senses professional#

PHOTO: SUPPLIEDWine writer, researcher and sound artist Dr Jo Burzynska has designed a multi-sensory wine experience that challenges how people think about wine, she tells Rebecca Fox.When Dr Jo Burzynska realised the sounds she was working with and the wine she was critiquing influenced each other, she thought it was just due to her own high engagement with both.Īs a sound artist and composer as well as a wine critic and judge she had an active professional engagement with taste and smell as well as hearing. There is more to wine than just drinking it, Dr Jo Burzynska says.