Sound Sculpture

sound sculpture

Created by MASARY

2016 - ongoing

Sound Sculpture is an interactive sound and light instrument for spontaneous, cooperative composition. 25 location-aware blocks comprise a massive, wireless midi controller. Each cube represents a note in spatial dimension and time, and the public’s interaction and placement of the cubes creates musical structures. Various sound and lights scores are prepared and realized in collaboration with the public.

It is like walking onto the staff paper, picking up the notes and moving them around, thereby changing pitch, rhythm, melody and harmony. 

In this way participants are creating physical and sonic structures collectively and simultaneously. 

TECH DOCUMENT / DETAILED OVERVIEW / ONE-SHEET ON FUNCTIONALITY

Photos by Aram Boghosian, Betty Hum, Reg Madison, and Scottsdale Arts

Select Sound sculpture presenters

Canal Convergence, Scottsdale, AZ, 2018

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2018

Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Petoskey, MI, 2018

Wanderlust, Stowe, VT 2018

International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT, 2018

World's Fair Nano, Brooklyn, NY, 2017

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 2017

Illuminus Festival, Boston, MA, 2017

SXSW, Austin, TX, 2024

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA 2024

SXSW, Austin, TX 2023

Ignite Festival, Ft Lauderdale, FL 2023

Schubert Club, Twin Cities, MN 2022

Live Design International, Las Vegas, NV 2019

MUTEK.SF, San Fransisco, CA 2019

AVIXA, Orlando, FL 2019

Momentum, Toledo, OH 2019

Detroit Symphony Orchestra / The Cube
Detroit, MI, 2018, 2019