Sound Sculpture is an interactive musical instrument, a physical sound and light environment that facilitates play and connection, and is a tool for creative expression.

The artwork allows participants to move and play with blocks, creating changeable and dynamic light and sound structures. These portable and location-aware blocks are designed to open a spatial and tangible aspect to musical composition, along with a sonic aspect to sculptural creations.

Sound Sculpture makes musical composition more physical, and sculptural creation more audible. The blocks are made of high- density poly-ethylene and are 17” on each side. Each block has a positioning tag inside, a battery, a small processor with wifi antennae and an LED light array.

Using freestanding “location anchors” and custom software, the blocks are trackable within the activated space and their movements and location are constantly updated. The software tracks across the space and sends a signal to each block in sequential order- activating it with sound and light. In this way “musical time” is viewable as the blocks light and make their corresponding sound depending their physical location.

As participants change the order and orientation of the blocks in the space, the musical composition changes accordingly. The x-axis commonly represents rhythm and the y-axis pitch.

About the artist: MASARY Studios is a transdisciplinary artist collective reconsidering environments through site-specific installations using sound, light, interactivity, and performance. Based in Boston, the studio's practice includes live percussion performance, electronic music and production, facade projection-mapped video, artistic research, technology and materials fabrication, and the expansive use of animation. The studio is artist-owned and managed and was founded in 2015.

MASARY is a team of artists with inter-related but distinct disciplines operating collectively. Many of the artworks the studio creates and shares are rooted in interactivity and created for showing in public spaces. The team at MASARY has extensive experience showing work in public and believes deeply in the concept that public art cannot be finished - it can only be well prepared. That is prepared to be realized and “finished” again and again in the eyes, hands, ears and

imagination of the participating public.