“The chief pathologist Doctor Michel Durigon decided it was time to create a Salle des Departs, a place where families and friends could come to say goodbye to their loved ones without, as he says, ‘having to suffer sickly background music and a red carpet.’ The result was a commission for a groundbreaking piece of art: a room designed by Italian artist Ettore Spaletti, and later a musical soundscape which I was invited to contribute, alongside American composer David Lang of Bang on a Can.” 

(Quote from Scanner’s bio page at Applied Acoustics)

 

The architecture (or at least as it appears in the pictures) doesn’t quite do it for me, but the music would seem to meet its mark. I found them both meditative and soothing. Both the BBC and WNYC made a programme about it, which is not that surprising considering that the two composers involved live in London and New York, respectively.