The Monolith is designed as a way for people to de-stress and be swept away into a whole new musical experience music. It has a mysterious feel to it, sort of calling you in through it’s strange and alien shape and the LEDs. The idea is that some stressed out college kid would get curious enough to walk up to it and as they got close the LED would turn on revealing what looked to be a control panel and it would start emitting a low humming. Then as they put their hand to the control panel they would feel the vibrations and would try to find out how they could manipulate them.

Thesis

Sketches

LED Lights up when someone approaches

Precedents

Generative

Algorithm

Musical Notes

Drum/Beat

Background Hum

All below 1k hz (human range of hearing through touch)

Block

Diagram

The Electronics

LEDs

Control Panel

Outer Decorative Panels

Connecting Brackets

Brackets

Vibrating Side

Panels

Control Panel

Structural Frame

LEDs

Panel LEDs

These projects were based off of the Listening Rooms studio. The goal of that studio was to create spaces for expression of music and to reimagine the concept of "venue". These projects accomplished this by recontextualizing the spacial and interactive qualities of a venue.

Listening Rooms