The traveling festival Unsound is launching a new project called Ephemera, which will team three musicians—Tim Hecker, Hyperdub boss Kode9, and Icelandic experimental artist Ben Frost—with the Berlin-based avant-garde perfumer Geza Schoen. They're collaborating to create three different scents: Drone, Bass, and Noise.

The musicians will make original music, and Schoen will create the scents to pair with the compositions. Hecker is composing for Drone, Kode9 for Bass, and Frost for Noise. The completed scents will inspire more music, which will be housed in an installation-style environment with both scents and sounds. "Electronic music can be quite abstract, yet certain sounds can trigger crossovers to certain smells for me," Schoen said.

According to a press release, a wearable version of the scents will be released in a collection later this year.

The installation will include a visual component by Manuel Sepulveda (Optigram) and video artist Marcel Weber (MFO), which will feature videos and silk-screened materials which change as the light shifts.

The project will launch at Unsound New York on March 31 at Audio Visual Arts, and then will travel to other cities. The installation will also be at Unsound Krakow in October.