Music
Annabelle Selldorf designs New York showroom for piano maker Steinway & Sons
Kram/Weisshaar designs reflection-warping Picó Blitz speakers for sound system exhibition
Gabriel Calatrava designs stretchy rope installation for classical music performance
Salt completes Tokyo music showroom for Steinway & Sons based on piano components
Doppler Labs’ in-ear listening system features a remote control for your ears
Ross Lovegrove downsizes giant speaker to create wireless Muo device
Kilo Design creates modular headphones for Aiaiai
Axel Bluhme’s drum machine triggers sounds using rotating discs of magnets
Imogen Heap’s music gloves could help disabled people “fulfil what’s in their head”
Musician Gergely Bogányi offers a curvaceous take on the traditional grand piano
The Flavour Conductor by Bompas & Parr enhances different flavours in whisky
Advances in digital interfaces will lead to a “new beginning in music”
Wintergatan Marble Machine plays music with metal balls
OK Go performs in zero-gravity for Upside Down & Inside Out music video
David Bowie was “facing his own mortality” with Blackstar album says cover designer
Spread “gives new meaning to the CD” with metal and bubble-wrap packaging
Gemma Roper’s internet radio lets users select music by tempo
Bone-conduction headphones allow cyclists to hear traffic noise while listening to music
The Mothership by Akoaki is a mobile DJ booth for playing funk on the streets of Detroit
Imogen Heap develops gloves that make music through hand gestures
Zsanett Szirmay turns cross-stitch patterns into musical scores
Adept creates timber-lined music rooms that each suit different instruments
Classic songs become buildings in Federico Babina’s Archimusic illustrations