Event

Synaesthesia Playground

Synaesthesia Playground is a piano concert experience for the 21st century masses. Young Steinway Artist Jocelyn Ho brings together a world-class team of musicians, computer scientists, visual artists, and fashion designers to create an immersive and interactive concert experience. Featuring six newly commissioned multimedia works for piano, we gamify classical music through the audiences own mobile phones and wearable tech. You will participate in music making with your own mobile phones like a game; your mobile phones become art-worthy makeshift musical instruments where you get to interact with the pianist on stage, and with each other.

The visual effects of Synaesthesia Playground will be nothing less than spectacular. Japanese visual artist Nobuho Nagasawa and HUL ARNOLD create a performance attire made of optical fibres that pulsate and change color to the performers heartbeat, breathing and movements. In stark contrast, multimedia artist Takafumi Ide and Celeste Oram create video projections onto the body of the piano, reimagining the piano as a living organism with a skin.

The collaborators for Synaesthesia Playground hail from all around the world. They include:

Jocelyn Ho, artistic director, composer, pianist

Daniel Weymouth (Stony Brook), composer
Sidney Boquiren (New York), composer
Andrew Batt-Rawden (Australia), composer
Celeste Oram (New Zealand), composer and multimedia artist
Anne Sophie Andersen (Denmark), composer

Nobuho Nagasawa (Japan), visual artist
Takafumi Ide (New York), visual artist
Bopha Hul and Troy Arnold (New York), fashion designers

Drew Petersen (Brooklyn), software engineer
Al Petersen (Brooklyn), software engineers
Pierre Depaz (Brooklyn), software engineer
Ben Finchley (Australia), software engineer
Roy Shilkrot (Boston), computer scientist

Join us for an evening of spectacular multimedia, interactive, immersive experience.