Sonos Playground - immersive music visualizer

Playground Deconstructed

Sonos Playground Deconstructed is a site-specific installation in the Nam June Paik / HBO Production Lab at the Museum of the Moving Image. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spectacle: The Music Video. (April 3–June 16, 2013)

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Visitors are able to select any song from an iPad and watch a visualization of the music projected onto the surrounding walls. Through motion-capture technology, visitors can interact with and manipulate the animation through movement.

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The installation aims to bring minimalist art to life as an immersive music video environment. Inspired by the wall drawings of Sol LeWitt and the room-flooding sound of the Sonos Playbar. At Museum of the Moving Image, Sonos Playground Deconstructed used five detached walls suspended above a reflective floor. Each of the walls has been painted with 27 1-inch wide white lines and 26 2-inch wide black lines. By mapping the white lines set between black lines we were able to create a more immersive and surreal environment.

Sonos Playground - entrance
Sonos Playground - projection mapping in the shed
Sonos Playground - projection mapping in the shed
Sonos Playground - neon play sign
Sonos Playground - making song selections
Sonos Playground - body tracking
Sonos Playground - body tracking
Sonos Playground - projection mapping
Sonos Playground - immersive music visualizer
Sonos Playground - immersive music visualizer
Sonos Playground - visualizer detail
Sonos Playground - visualizer detail

Sonos Playground was originally installed in a 250 square foot shed at the Sonos Studio at the 2013 SXSW festival.

Team

  • Zander Brimijoin - Creative Lead
  • Daniel Scheibel - Technology Director
  • Evan Anthony - Design, Animation
  • Charlie Whitney - Developer

In Collaboration With

  • Aramique - Creative Direction
  • Blair Neal - Technical Design (Hardware)
  • 11th Street Workshop - Fabrication

Created for Sonos