Volume
Built for the Panorama Music Festival, Volume shifts in response—redirecting light, sound, and attention back toward those nearby. Positioned as a moment of pause within the festival grounds, the mirrored cube absorbs and reflects the collective energy of people as they circulate around it.
The installation takes the form of a reflective cube whose surface reacts in real time to movement and sound. As people approach, mirrored panels subtly reorient, fragmenting reflections and folding bodies, motion, and atmosphere into the experience.
Client : Softlab
Scope : Mechatronics and Industrial Design
Date : 2018
Location : New York, NY
Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
The installation is composed of a grid of one hundred mirrored panels, each capable of rotating independently. Depth cameras track movement around the cube, prompting mirrors to turn toward nearby bodies and creating the sensation that the installation is aware of its audience—acknowledging individual presence within a larger collective system.
Individually addressable LEDs integrated along the panel edges respond to ambient sound, causing the cube to pulse and shimmer in rhythm with music and crowd noise. As people move through the space, Volume continuously reconfigures itself, blurring the boundary between physical object and ephemeral condition and transforming reflection, light, and sound into a shared spatial moment.
