Scent and sound

Oliver Schnyder

Vincent Micotti

"Musicians have to hear sounds in advance, perfumers first have to create a mental scent model. Pressing a piano key is not yet music, mixing essential oils is by no means a perfume." This is how the trained cellist and perfumer Vincent Micotti sums up the interface between professional music-making and fragrance creation.

The Museum Aargau and the Scent Festival will set the scene for scent and sound on August 12 and 14 at Königsfelden Abbey in Windisch: Aargau pianist Oliver Schnyder will interpret Bach's Goldberg Variations. His playing will be enveloped by three fragrances created especially for these performances. Rudolf Velhagen, Head Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at the Museum Aargau, talks to the two artists before the fragrance performance.