Brighten Up a Party With This Sound Responsive Disco Ball

The disco ball gets an update in the collaborative project Disco Disco by Alex Asseily, design studio Goodwin Hartshorn, and London-based designers Haberdashery. It's an update that turns the standard wedding staple into a programmable twinkling music visualiser.

Resembling an LED sun, the responsive white light is sensitive enough to "react to a clicked finger through to your favourite piece of music." says the video's description—in turn creating a checkered interplay between light and shadow on its pixelated surface. The current version is circular with acrylic fins that fan out around it radiating the light outwards, but Haberdashery say it could be built to fit custom spaces.

"This installation questions the relationship between the viewers and the artwork", says the designers, "Do they adapt to the rhythm of the sculpture in front of them, or does the sculpture adapt to them? Who is in control? Does it actually matter?

Update: The piece was shown in Paris at the Play of Brilliants exhibition, as well as in London for the May 2015 Design Series and in September for the London Design Festival 2015.

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