The project stems from my interest in how and what people communicate: the need to communicate is something that we have from the moment we are born. What I attempt to create through the installation is to use sound as the main element in bringing two people closer over distance, whether physical or metaphorical.  The project incorporates heartbeat and breathing sound as those words—heartbeat and breathing—are often used in expressing one's emotional state.

As part of research, several experiments were conducted to ten different pairs to find out possible interactions between two people.  Participants were instructed to explore the space while listening to each other's heartbeat or lung sound through headphones.  The volume or the speed of the sound changed according to the distance between two people by a moderator (myself), whose role was not known to the participants.

1. Two people were put in the same room, and the space was kept dark. 

2. Each person was put in two adjacent rooms.

3. The setting for the second experiment was used, but each person could listen to both one's own heartbeat and the other person's.