ABOUT THE CLIENT
Blackout Lyrics was born as a collaboration with Low-Fi, a startup founded in Copenhagen in 2015. Low-Fi is an online marketplace for house concerts where musicians and bands meet concert goers and hosts to create intimate live music events. Starting from the premise that in their corporate statement they do not refer to themselves as being part of the “music business” but rather to the let’s bring people together business, through this initiative they aim at giving a kickstart to the creation of a strong community of musicians and music lovers through an initiative that communicates the value of music for society.
ABOUT THE PROCESS
We explored the experience of house concerts through the application of a wide range of design tools.
We started with a series of interviews where 9 music lovers and 7 professional musicians coming from 6 different countries told us about how they experience live music from the two opposite sides of the stage. Their insights were very helpful to map out the phenomenology of a concert, to which we kept on referring to for the entire duration of the project.
To make the knowledge we gained actionable we involved our stakeholders in a workshop where we used different body-storming exercises to get collect ideas that we then explored further in a session of brain-sketching.
We started with a series of interviews where 9 music lovers and 7 professional musicians coming from 6 different countries told us about how they experience live music from the two opposite sides of the stage. Their insights were very helpful to map out the phenomenology of a concert, to which we kept on referring to for the entire duration of the project.
To make the knowledge we gained actionable we involved our stakeholders in a workshop where we used different body-storming exercises to get collect ideas that we then explored further in a session of brain-sketching.
ABOUT THE CONCEPT
The result of our design process was Blackout Lyrics, named after the concept of Blackout Poetry, an emerging practice where people create poetry not by writing, but by erasing words from existing texts, such as books or newspapers. Similarly Blackout Lyrics is a light installation for concert goers to play with by switching on and off the words of a song of the performing artist.
By giving musicians and music lovers the tools to co-create, Blackout Lyrics attempts to generate a shared value that will possibly contribute to build a strong community of users, while at the same time promote the concept of music not as a product to consume, but as an activity that brings people together.
By giving musicians and music lovers the tools to co-create, Blackout Lyrics attempts to generate a shared value that will possibly contribute to build a strong community of users, while at the same time promote the concept of music not as a product to consume, but as an activity that brings people together.
TYPES OF INTERACTION
#1 capacity sensors
#2 button press
#3 cable plug
Design team: Delia Albu, Nicole Carlsson, Bianca Di Giovanni, Jesper Hyldahl Fogh.
