Our first run of Syzygryd was a great success! Almost all of the systems we had designed worked as expected (especially without having a test run). A lot of the sound sets that were submitted by artists sounded wonderful and we were really greatly surprised by how much people enjoyed playing with them.

Overall, we had a great response. There wasn’t a moment during event week where the sculpture wasn’t being interacted with. We even had artists creating sets mid-week and had an interpretive dance group perform during a set.

Despite some challenges, I will still be involved heavily with the project and it’s future runs. Hopefully, from these runs we will also be able to improve upon our sound system and provide an even more rich environment for people to experience.

As far as the software aspect is concerned, we will be preparing the code base soon for public release so people can essentially build their own Syzygryd or just freely improve upon our code. I definitely look forward to seeing how the code evolves from our original implementation.