Liz Maday LO4

Sonic Playground (2018) is an interactive installation created by Yuri Suzuki, as part of an initiative to make the space outside the High Museum of Art in Atlanta more playful and engaging. When you speak into these horn like structures, they manipulate sound depending on your position. The sound was developed in Grasshopper using “wave tracing techniques”. The program allows the user to test different geometric shapes, and how they would affect the sound actually being produced.

This project is inspiring to me because I appreciate the way that it suggests that adults are capable of play and wonder in the same way that children are. Although this installation is reminiscent of the child like structure of a playground, it is intriguing to think about all the complicated programming that went into its precise design.