Sisters is a sound based interactive narrative exploring memory, trauma, intimacy and complexity, realised by Jamie Fawcus, Lissa Holloway-Attaway and Mio Jernström. The experience is based on the memories, recollections and visual images of graphic artist Mio Jernström, who grew up in a small house in the north of Sweden. This experience deals with themes such as domestic violence, alcoholism, and mental illness.

Sisters is an audio-based interactive story experience for a single user who uses the playing cards and the mobile phone provided with headphones to activate sound content that is particular to each card.

The sounds are varied and of different lengths (8-30 seconds), and the user may stop the audio by using the stop button on the phone display, or by triggering another sound on a different card.  Alternately users can scan the special double–sided Sisters card (slightly larger than the rest) to stop the audio. 

After listening to each card, users are asked to group the cards together into 9 different possible configurations that abstractly represent the interior and exterior domestic space of a family home. Each of the groupings are formed by users associating like sounds to each other. Similar sounds are arranged together in one configuration.

Collectively the sounds and cards convey the story of 4 family members, a Father, Mother and an Older and Younger Sister.  They live together in a complex, dynamically charged and often abusive household. The audio story that unfolds, then, mediates between scenes of normalcy, love, companionship, and violence. Users listen carefully to uncover the complex story and to try to understand the relationships and experiences of the family members, one to each other and alone. 

By listening carefully, and by placing the cards together into the 9 groupings, each user constructs a unique interpretation of a troubled home based on their own personal understanding of the sounds they hear and the cards that trigger the audio.