Interactive sound and moving-image installation Play and See lets anyone step up to the piano to bring new worlds to life – no experience needed. Each note you play shapes a shifting scene: flocks of birds might take flight, trees might grow, you may soar through an infinite tunnel.
Whether you’re just tapping out a few notes or playing a full piece, this interactive installation by composer, pianist, and inventor Charlie Hooper-Williams transforms sound into something vivid, unexpected, and alive.
American-British composer and pianist Charlie Hooper-Williams is one of the developers of the app Shazam and a prizewinner at the International Shostakovich Piano Competition. He performs alongside a bespoke live projections system he has coded, creating real time visuals in response to each performance. He has attracted critical and popular acclaim; described as “inverse film scoring”, this “lovely, special, immersive show” (Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3) combines intricate, virtuosic textures with moving and accessible melodies. Originally from the pine woods of Minnesota’s Iron Range, he grew up near Chicago, studied at the University of Cambridge Centre for Music and Science, and now makes his home in Bath.