RESONATING STORIES | AN ALTERNATIVE EDITION OF "WHITE NOISE"
• transmedia storytelling, book design
The project is an alternative, experimental edition of Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise", which creates a multi-sensory experience by interweaving language, code, visual notation, and sound.
Deep reading becomes increasingly difficult in an age where our senses are constantly stimulated. The project aims to redefine the reading experience and reach out to readers who have lost touch with reading.
The alternative edition of the novel opens up the possibility of a personalised and immersive reading experience that goes beyond traditional narrative engagement and storytelling. By merging analogue and digital modes of reading, it creates the possibility for a new kind of reading experience, where surface reading is replaced by deep reading.
The project's experimental nature lies in blending conventional and digital reading modes. The introduction of game-like, interactive elements such as coded puzzles and a visual reader's journal, which generates unique audio representations, reflect the reader's individual interpretation and emotional response to the novel. The interweaving of these elements creates a multi-sensory experience that encourages active participation: the reader experiences the unfolding of the readable text and its complementary content as a reward. The reader is not only the receiver of the reading experience, but also its co-creator, which results in a deeper connection between the reader and the text.
The project has been featured in:
• Designisso article [link]
• Best of MOME '23 (Budapest Design Week)
• "Akkordok" exhibition (MKISZ, Budapest)
• Vienna Art Book Fair, 2023
Project supervisor: Dóra Balla
Sound design: Esteban de la Torre (EJTECH)
Print: EPC Printing Company
Print: EPC Printing Company