Keeping Time
Keeping Time is a metonome inspired lamp that pulses light at a user controlled tempo. It redefines musical time as a visual experience of rhythm, presence, and attention. The lamp was featured on display at San Francisco's TIAT, The Intersection of Art and Technology museum, through April 2026.
Custom Electronics + Installation
Formally, the object is an illuminated metronome-lamp hybrid. A potentiometer allows the user to control the tempo, ranging from 60 BPM to 300 BPM, and the NeoPixel LED strip inside the enclosure produces smooth, fading pulses of light. The enclosure itself was hand-built in a woodshop; a minimalistic, clean pyramid topped with a spherical diffuser that softens the LEDs and creates a warm, breathing-like glow. When in use, the object becomes both decorative and functional: a tool for musicianship, and a ritual object for resetting attention and regulating one’s sense of time.
