It looks like Aramique Krauthamer has been keeping busy since we visited Nike’s “Art and Science of Feeling” pop-up experience last month. We encountered the NYC-based installation/interaction designer at the opening of “PLAY: A Visual Music Experience,” the latest installation that he’s designed with Fake Love for his ongoing collaboration with premium home audio purveyors SONOS. No brainwave sensors this time around: Since true haptic feedback would have required speakers with custom top panels, the ‘touch’ sensor is actually a discreet optical input, which toggles the colors of the ripple-like projections. The visuals reflect not only the amplitude of soundwaves (as in your iTunes visualizer) but also the pitch, tone and a few other attributes.
Frankly, I couldn’t tell the difference, but I did share Aramique’s interest in the custom ‘furniture’ he designed for each ‘room’ of the installation. The lucite boxes are embedded with LEDs that match the projects and were fabricated for the project, which is en route to SONOS’ Los Angeles studio after its one-night-only debut earlier this week. The occasion for the celebration is the worldwide availability of the new PLAY:1 speaker, which debuted two weeks ago, just in time for the holidays.
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