How We Arrived at the Design Challenge

We asked ourselves how do people currently experience music and why do people listen to music in general?

Current Music Experiences are Isolated

We noticed that streaming music experiences, which are currently very popular, are very individual, personalized, and on-demand. We wanted to explore how we could create a collective music listening experience focused on sharing.

Drawing Inspiration

We were inspired by Jack Mackie's bronze footsteps on Capitol Hill in Seattle, which invite passerby to follow footsteps to learn dances.

Sketching

I sketched out different ideas as our group discussed them during our brainstorming sessions.

First Video Prototype

After a day of shooting I edited our teams first video prototype demonstrating our interactive node idea.

Evaluation

While we were pleased with the experience portrayed in our video demo, we felt that the sculpture had several limitations:

• It was too limited by physical space and potentially interfered with storefronts and public spaces​
• It had to be translucent yet durable which is a difficult balance to achieve
  
• It was stuck in one location, and was difficult to scale
  

To resolve these issues, we decided it would be appropriate to transfer the essence and experience of our sculpture to an AR application.

Storyboarding a New Concept

Pushing off the virtual breadcrumb idea, my team and I developed a new concept: people discover a city's music culture by sharing, pursuing, and exchanging recordings of artists and musicians in AR. I wrote the storyline for the storyboard, while my teammate, Erfan Dastournejad, drew the frames.