1.1.25–Trained as an architect and a jazz musician, Christopher Janney has created numerous permanent interactive sound/light installations and performances. On the one hand, he attempts to make architecture more “spontaneous” (Harmonic Runway, Miami Airport; REACH:NY, 34th St. subway, New York) and, on the other hand, to make music more physical, more visual (HeartBeat:mb with S. Rudner, M. Baryshnikov).

       Architectural projects include an interactive sculptural scoreboard for the Miami Arena, in Miami, FL; Rainbow Cove at Logan Airport, Boston, MA; A House is a Musical Instrument: Kona, an 8000 square foot private residence in Kona, HI based on Hawaiian cosmological principles; Harmonic Convergence, an interactive sound/light environment in the Miami International Airport; Touch My Building:Charlotte, the façade of an 8-story garage for Bank of America, Charlotte, NC for ; “Harmonic Grove, ” an 4000 sq.ft. colored glass entrance canopy with interactive sound; and five US/UK tours of Sonic Forest  to major music festivals including “Bonnaroo,” “Coachella,” “Wireless,” “Electric Daisy Carnival” and “Glastonbury.”

     Believing also that architecture is about a manifestation of the “public spirit”, he has been a Visiting Professor at Cooper Union’s Irwin Chanin School of Architecture and Pratt Institute where he taught his seminar “Sound As A Visual Medium.” 

       Winner of numerous state and national arts grants, Janney has been awarded both the Kepes Prize from MIT and the Thomas Edison Award from General Electric. In 1984, Esquire Magazine chose Janney as one of the “Men and Women Under Forty Who Are Changing America.” In 2019, his custom-built Electric Porsche Targa won “Best Modified” at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum exhibition.  He has directed his own multi-media studio, PhenomenArts, Inc., since 1980.

        Current projects include a performance of “HeartBeat” as the finale to Loyola Maymount University’s Indian/American conference on Yoga Studies in the Department of Religion and Spiritualty. Design projects include a new transparent colored glass signage system for COSM Entertainment. Research projects include  developing 4D drawings in space using the Apple Vision Pro at the USC Iovine/Young Academy and 3D Printing organic forms in transparent colored resin.

     A book on Christopher Janney, titled “Architecture of the Air”, is available through Amazon.com and Janney’s website.

 For more information, go to-  www.janneysound.com