This is the Breathing Lamp, a kinetic touch-interactive lamp. When you touch the metal base, the lamp turns on and opens like an origami flower to reveal complex folds and soft light. Touch the lamp again, and it opens further, with brighter light. Touch the lamp a third time and the lamp comes to life - it begins to move gently and rhythmically, inspiring you to breathe with it. Clear your mind, quiet your thoughts, and breathe.

This lamp was inspired by a project we did almost 10 years ago with our friends at SOSO and Plebian Design, a kinetic sculpture in Cambridge MA called Diffusion Choir. One night many years later, we were watching the prototypes move in the winter darkness just after we had turned off the lights and fell in love with the shaded light created by the Tyvek membrane of the sculpture. An idea was born. We started playing with lamp shapes and touch sensitivity.

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Credits:
A collaboration between Hypersonic, SOSO, and Plebian Design

Hypersonic:
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
Kirman Hansen
David Gould
Mischa Langley
Petra Schmidt

This sculpture is a dynamic meditation on the beauty of rotational motion and how it can play with depth and color perception. Inspired by toroidal forms in nature — from smoke rings drifting through the air to magnetic fields that shape plasma in high-energy fusion reactions — the piece invites the viewer to slow down and observe closely.

At the heart of the sculpture is a central axis around which twelve equilateral triangles revolve in a continuous dance. Each triangle holds a dyed wooden block in vivid primary hues of red, blue, and yellow.

The resulting motion is slow and deliberate, generating ever-shifting arrangements of color and shape. As the piece turns, viewers witness a cascade of transient patterns — a three-dimensional, analog animation that never repeats in quite the same way.

Wood, acrylic dye, plastic, steel, stepper motors, electronics.

Hypersonic:
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
Kirman Hanson
David Gould
Petra Schmidt

Photos and video by Hypersonic

"Ethereal Relaxation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In Rainbows plays further with the notions of planetary movements, the sun, and time. This piece takes the idea of a sundial one step further by allowing the 12 sliding elements forming the clock-face to become individual conduits of refracted light. The elements gracefully rotate as they move, changing the emitted colours with every angle and position in new and surprising ways.

Dichroic film, acrylic, aluminum, paint, plastic, linear tracks, stepper motors, electronics.

Hypersonic:
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
David Gould
Kirman Hanson
Petra Schmidt
Mischa Langley

In Lignum is the first in a series of playful wall-mounted sculptures inspired by early human observations of planetary movements. This piece invites viewers to linger and observe the generating patterns which are formed by 12 hand-carved wooden blocks that are drifting across the surface. Generative patterns are constantly evolving. Eventually, they might align and tell the time.

Douglas fir, aluminum, plastic, linear tracks, stepper motors, electronics.

Hypersonic
Bill Washabaugh
Alex Garcia
David Gould
Kirman Hanson
Petra Schmidt
Mischa Langley