Cory has spent over a decade in sustained inquiry with the Krishnamurti Foundation of America — an organization dedicated to dialogue, perception, and the study of human consciousness — where he continues to serve as a trustee. That work shaped a lasting orientation: a deep interest in how attention operates, how relationship unfolds, and what becomes possible when awareness is shared rather than divided.
Alongside this philosophical exploration, he co-founded Studio 3XP, an experiential design studio, and has spent the past several years creating environments for collective encounter — spaces shaped by light, sound, material, and spatial rhythm. These works explore how atmosphere influences perception, and how a shared environment can subtly affect the quality of attention within a group.
Emphonic grew from the convergence of these paths. It is an artistic investigation into whether relational dynamics themselves can become compositional material — whether a group's physiological field, rendered as sound, might open a domain of aesthetic experience that has not previously existed. The project is grounded in a conviction that technology can serve as a perceptual instrument, making visible what is otherwise difficult to sense.
Rather than positioning technology as the future, Emphonic asks a quieter question: What if relational dynamics — normally invisible and implicit — could become material for artistic exploration?
The project treats technology as one of humanity's most extraordinary achievements — and situates it within a larger inquiry into how we might exist differently on this planet, in deeper coherence with one another and the living systems we inhabit.