Press
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2024
January 19, 2024
Mediacorp, Vibes by 8world (Singapore)
想暂时逃离日常生活压力？走入本地团体Whisperlodge打造的多房间装置，通过日常生活接触的事物开启感官，用ASMR（自主感觉经络反应）疗愈自我。
January 12, 2024
TimeOut Singapore
The company will be presenting Wishful Thinking, which puts a slightly different spin on things. During this experience, you'll be guided through multiple rooms and installations to explore and immerse in a variety of textures and sounds.
2022
September 13, 2022
Her World Singapore
My Weird, Wonderful Experience At Whisperlodge
September 13, 2022
TimeOut Singapore
This live ASMR experience in an industrial building will blow your mind – if you let it
September 7, 2022
TimeOut Singapore
At Whisperlodge, participants are led through an immersive 90-minute journey during which they are exposed to a lush medley of sensations – visual, auditory and touch – that aim to provide relaxation and intimacy.
2020
May 29, 2020
State Of The Art podcast
The Art of ASMR: Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge
May 5, 2020
ArkDes
Pillow talk: ASMR and care
February 24, 2020
NBC New York
ASMR Spa Brings Tingles to New York
February 24, 2020
Vice
We Spent a Day at an ASMR Spa
February 20, 2020
Rolling Stone
An Oral History of ASMR
February 13, 2020
VML
Q&A with Melinda Lauw, co-creator and creative director, Whisperlodge
January 29, 2020
Channel 8, Mediacorp (Singapore)
晨光|潮流解码：自发性知觉经络反应(ASMR)成年轻网路时代风潮
2019
December 19, 2019
The Science of Happiness podcast
Episode 55: How to Get Your Senses Tingling
December 7, 2019
The Amy Beecher Show
Episode 36: Whispering with Dr. Craig Richard and Melinda Lauw
December 7, 2019
Immersion Nation podcast
Episode 19: Invisible but not hidden: Wellness and the transformation economy
December 7, 2019
American Way, the American Airlines in-flight magazine
Whisperlodge brings a live ASMR experience to guests who want to feel the tingle
August 12, 2019
Event Marketer
ASMR is trending, but doing it well takes more than a light touch
April 8, 2019
FBE React
Seniors Try An ASMR SPA for the First Time
April 4, 2019
New York Times Magazine
How A.S.M.R. Became a Sensation
March 14, 2019
Haunting
Adapting an ASMR Experience for the Deaf Community
March 12, 2019
Vulture
Inside the Rise of the ASMR Commercial
March 8, 2019
LA Weekly
14 Best Things To Do In L.A. this Week
February 22, 2019
Telemundo 52 LA
Relajándose mediante los susurros
February 21, 2019
We Like LA
Whisperlodge is an ASMR Video Performed in Real Life
February 13, 2019
WBUR 90.9, Boston’s NPR News Station
From Super Bowl AD to YouTube Videos, ASMR Is Giving People Tingles
January 28, 2019
B-Side (Singapore)
Melinda Lauw: To Make Art Your Body Responds To
2018
November 18, 2018
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Heard of ASMR? Millions are watching people whisper to a camera
October 18, 2018
YPulse
This Startup Is Selling Out Its Oddly Satisfying Events
October 17, 2018
Al Jazeera News
Is there more to ASMR than brain tingles?
October 23, 2018
Esquire Singapore
Episode 13: Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)
October 4, 2018
The Hindu (India)
Projects like Whisperlodge, which describes itself as the very first in-person immersive ASMR experience, want to ‘bring ASMR into the real world, up close and personal’.
October 2, 2018
Politkya (Poland)
ASMR, czyli terapia szeptem
September 10, 2018
Mashable
We went to an ASMR spa and it got real intimate real fast.
September, 2018
Nippon TV (Japan)
Aired on Japan's longest running variety show "Sekai No Hate Made ItteQ"
August 30, 2018
Newsweek
Inside the Whispery, Wonderful Golden Age of ASMR
August 27, 2018
Now This
ASMR Spa Brings Soothing Experience To Life
August 23, 2018
Netflix: Follow This original series
Part 1, Episode 1: The Internet Whisperers
August 15, 2018
Reuters
Whisperlodge is immersive theater through live ASMR
August 14, 2018
Fox 5 NY
Good Day New York visits Whisperlodge
February 15, 2018
The New York Times
The Tingle Makers, Open for Business
April 19, 2018
WCBS 880
The Sensory Pleasures Of ASMR At Whisperlodge
February 7, 2018
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Scientists have found out why voices like Bob Ross' is so soothing
2017
, 2017
Buzzfeed
We sent three Buzzfeed employees to see what the fuck is going on
June 5, 2017
The Atlantic
Two artists are trying to translate relaxing YouTube videos into an in-person treatment—complete with tapping, whispering, and face-brushing
November 23, 2017
Nylon
What it's like inside an ASMR spa
December 17, 2017
Ud & Se (Denmark)
Those who whisper are enjoying
November 16, 2017
Die Welt (Germany)
ASMR is like climbing back into the mother's womb, and when it's over, you experience the shock of birth again
November 5, 2017
Ix Daily
I was at Whisperlodge,a 90-minute immersive performance slash spa that offers only one kind of treatment: ASMR.
November 3, 2017
60 Second Docs
Massaging your mind with sound
October 26, 2017
Insider Beauty
This is not your average spa experience
October 11, 2017
WhispersRed ASMR
✨ ASMR Spa Treatments | My visit to Whisperlodge ✨
October 9, 2017
No Proscenium
‘Whisperlodge’ Brings The Gentle Art of ASMR Alive (The NoPro Review)
October 4, 2017
No Proscenium
Co-creators Andrew Hoepfner and Melinda Lauw talk to us about the show’s evolution, casting, essential oils, and the act of giving
October 4, 2017
Pigeons & Planes
One of the oddest corners of the internet is making the leap to real life
September 30, 2017
Today (Singapore)
S’porean sets up ASMR ‘audio spa’ whispering, crinkling objects to customers in US
September 21, 2017
Haunting
Whisperlodge brings ASMR into the physical realm
May 19, 2017
TimeOut San Francisco
An immersive whispering spa is opening on Governors Island for a weekend
September 7, 2017
MarketWatch
Why people are paying to hear strangers whisper and get stroked by Q-tips
August 2, 2017
A.V. Club
Very, very quietly enter this cult-like ASMR spa
May 19, 2017
TimeOut New York
An immersive whispering spa is opening on Governors Island for a weekend
2016
November 22, 2016
New York Magazine: The Cut
You can now get your ASMR fix in person
December 23, 2016
The Scene
Turn your sound up—you haven’t heard Christmas carols like this before
October 31, 2016
Circa News
How Whisperlodge is bringing the internet phenomenon of ASMR to real life
October 14, 2016
No Proscenium
Episode 068: Zay talks to Andrew Hoepfner and Melinda Lauw of Whisperlodge, a recent experiment in live ASMR experiences in New York
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