Inspired by the amazing technologies that make music and art accessible to people at all levels of proficiency, talent and physical ability, this gallery will make you an instant artist and performer! Through the use of sensors, theatrical lighting, a tactile stimulation device and other innovations, you will have the opportunity to express yourself artistically by using gestures to hear, see and feel the energy of light and sound.

Paint Box Interactive

Visitors create and play with light, color and sound, using their gestures and movement individually and collectively to activate a space that is itself a multisensory instrument. Riffs made of the sounds and rhythms from different genres (hip hop, rap, Latin, Afro Caribbean, heavy metal, etc.) are part of the musical menu of possibilities.

 An interactive AV system comprised of motion sensors, sound generators and projectors, immerses visitors in a landscape of music and color of their own making.

Art Jam

In this merger of art and music, visitors use touch and movement to play a quintet of fanciful sculptural objects that respond in surprising ways, producing music the can be felt. The underlying software is designed so that the music produced is always in harmony, allowing for ”faultless jamming,” even by non-musicians.

Four to five fanciful tactile instruments can be played intuitively and are designed to draw upon fundamental tactile gestures that create musical sounds – strumming and plucking strings, bending sound; stroking and striking surfaces and moving air. As visitors play, they trigger the appearance and movement of colors or silhouettes on the walls of the space around them.

Musical Instrument Sculpture

Within a 6’ diameter circular rail, a swirling spiral armature rises to approximately 15 feet, mounted with a diversity of musical instruments from around the world.  This assemblage of woodwind, percussion, brass and string instruments (all acoustic, most made out of wood) is designed to capture and convey the dynamic energy of music, without making a sound. The circular rail has 8 panels mounted to it, each with identification labels for multiple musical instruments, keyed with photographs.

The iconic sculpture conveys the idea that although music is a universal language of self expression, every culture develops its own unique instruments. The materials and forms of these instruments shape the character and sound of that culture’s music.