Cherish your music forever with the modern revival of vinyl
Inspired by the cultural relevance of Spotify Wrapped and my personal relationship with music, I dedicated my CMU capstone project to explore a reality where music data is made meaningful to the music listener. The latest prototype repackages music data in a physical form, reversing the displacement of our memory of music in Instagram stories, chat bubbles, and screenshots.
Biosphere Records places our music back into our hands: to touch, to explore, to feel, to reflect, and to remember.
Role: CDO 😎️ (Personal project)
Skills: Research, Data Visualization, Graphic Design, Production
HOW IT WORKS
THE VINYL EXPERIENCE
Your music activity, modeled after the weather
Is your music
sunny or stormy? Blue skies, or maybe a slight chance of rainfall? Find out in your annual report, which arrives every December at your doorstep.
Reveal detailed schematics, insights, and visualizations made from your data, for you.
Reveal detailed schematics, insights, and visualizations made from your data, for you.
1_ Exterior
Sleeve, front & back
Top 12 songs tracklist with relativity rankings
Listening activity summary includes demographic info, top terrain, and keystone species
Listening activity summary includes demographic info, top terrain, and keystone species
2_ Inside
Vinyl, side A & B
12-inch semi-transparent LP
Center label, uniquely coded to your site and terrain data
Center label, uniquely coded to your site and terrain data
3_ Behind the Vinyl
Report, with heatmap & schematics
A rich breakdown of your music ecosystem’s weather
4_ And More
Music ephemera
Hand-selected, custom-made music identity keepsakes
Varied contents
Varied contents
CLIMATOLOGY 101 (MORE COMING SOON)
Characterizing a music ecosystem
Biosphere Records maps your music activity to eight core climate factors: temperature, air pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, air quality, visibility, UV.
Thanks for stopping by!
My hope is that this experience inspires a truer conversation about what we love, what we’ve been through, and why. I’m still building out this case study, but please reach out if you have any feedback or thoughts to share🤍
