Spatial Garden
An on-location musical journey through the history of the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden.
Watch on YouTube: Spatial Garden (opens in a new tab)Coming February 23, 2027
Sonic Blueprints
Composing Music for Spatial Experience
Music you walk through.
Sonic Blueprints is an illustrated guide to composing music for physical and digital spaces—using space, as much as time, as a compositional lens.
It gives readers a way to think about spatial music, not just in melody, harmony and rhythm, but in concepts like circulation, materiality, and shadows.
By Will Copps · Physical and digital release
About the book
An approach in four parts.
- How We Place Sound
- How We Frame
- How We Compose
- Realization and Continuity
Who it is for
For musicians and sound artists, the book offers a working approach to composing music for emerging technology in the world around us in unexpected and exciting ways. It is also for architects, curators and space owners who want to contrast or augment their worlds; for game designers looking to bring interactivity and presence to new experiences; and for anyone who simply wants to better understand how they hear the world.
Read the press kit for more about the bookYear One
An early exploration of augmented-reality music for iOS that allowed listeners to navigate and reshape compositions through physical movement.
Watch on YouTube: Year One (opens in a new tab)Liminal
The app is designed to be experienced through your physical presence on campus, and interacted with through your movement.
Watch on YouTube: Liminal (opens in a new tab)Spatial Orchestra
The app lets you physically walk through your living room or other space, seeing the instruments and hearing them as if they were there.
Watch on YouTube: Spatial Orchestra (opens in a new tab)Spatial Orchestra is a collaboration between TCW and Cinema-Sonic.