Pepsi Music Party

The installation consisted of four stylized, all-white rooms—a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, and a dining room—each equipped with a tablet linked to the Play:1 app. Guests could pick a song to play, which the technology then analyzed based on elements such as beats per minute, pitch, and tonality to wash the room in a corresponding color and trigger ripple-like projections.

Each room featured a custom piece of LED-embedded acrylic furniture—the bed in the bedroom, for example—that also lit up and pulsed to the beat of the soundtrack.

The installation's residential-looking rooms were styled with all-white furniture and accessories, to allow the projected colors to completely transform the spaces.

Tablets, which guests used to control the songs being played in each vignette, were embedded into household items, such as a dinner tray in the dining area and a record player in the living room.

Items such as wine bottles in the dining room and framed art in the bedroom encouraged guests to touch the Sonos speakers, which would cause the projected colors to subtly change tones.

On the opening night of the activation, Jose Mangin, SiriusXM’s director of programming and an on-air host, hosted a dinner party in the space. Cheerful floral arrangements by Blue Water Flowers dotted the tables.

The first night's dinner was catered by Peter Callahan Catering, which served guests miniature pizzas in Sonos boxes during cocktail hour.

Guests were encouraged to take photos in the rooms to post to Instagram with the hashtag #SonosPlay. The tagged images were then projected onto blank canvases that hung on the walls.