Grammy Museum

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Immersive Lighting & Musical Experience, 2025

Client: Grammy Museum

Scope: Engineering, Fabrication, Project Management & Installation

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Design Credit: Curious Beast

Photography Credit: Joel Barhamand

Public Link: https://grammymuseum.org/exhibit/sonic-playground/

The Challenge:

Bring a napkin sketch of an idea type space filled with music, color & texture together via a 16-channel Sonic Forest.  

The Solution:

Dare a bunch of salty island-based creatives to hit a budget — game on!

Tell us to “keep 16 kids busy all at once as they bring new life to curated piece of music” - again, let’s do it!

Via a ton of long days and multiple rounds of hardware and software testing, BMD leaned into Infrared Sensors and LED lighting to bring this one to life.  With our friends at Curious Beast, we tested, and tested, and with another guy’s wallet in mind, we teamed up and nailed this one — together.

It’s an absolute masterpiece.

A group of musicians performing on a small stage with a 'Grammy Museum' logo in the background. A man is playing an electric guitar and singing, a woman is playing a keyboard, and a young girl is playing a smaller keyboard. Everyone is smiling and we
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A DJ setup with two turntables, a mixer, and a monitor screen displaying "DJ PLAY" with a pink background. The background features a colorful, illuminated area with vertical light bars and hanging circular designs with the Grammy Museum logo. Metal r
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