AlbumWall is an interactive art project I put together over several months. I was at the Tate Modern in August, 2016 and saw Ellsworth Kelly's Méditerranée. Inspired by the colors, I decided that I would appropriate the work by painting the same grid on my wall in Brooklyn, then mounting records on each of the squares.
Over time I began to think that this could be a bit more interesting if it were interactive. If you're in my apartment and have the app installed, you can listen to any of the albums on the wall by simply pressing on the cover art within the app. Here's a video (coming soon) of the app in action.
The build assumes an instance of node-sonos-http-api is running at the address 192.168.1.151 in order to interact with the Sonos system. This obviously needs to be changed, and I will soon run a local Raspberry Pi with a static address to interact with Sonos at a later stage. Run the following to set up the server:
git clone [email protected]:jishi/node-sonos-http-api.git
cd node-sonos-http-api
npm install --production
npm start
Follow the usual steps to build a React Native project for iOS:
brew install node
brew install watchman
npm install -g react-native-cli
react-native run-ios
- Make the
node-sonos-http-apiaddress configurable. - Add tests (I know, should've been done first, but it's a hacked together art project)
- Android support?
- Different actions for album short press/long press.
- Long press to trigger menu providing album metadata, chosing whether to play 'featured' track vs. entire album.