The Ryze invites you into a speculative listening room, an evening at the intersection of sound, visual art, and collective making. Designed in response to the Design Vancouver Festival, hosted at the Artspeak Gallery.

Rather than playing music in the background, The Ryze creates a soundscape that operates as an interpretive mechanism, shaping the room's atmosphere, pacing, and attention. Throughout the experience, we guide participants through the concept of collective memory — how cross-modal perception, sensation, and shared experience can be held, shaped, and made tangible.

Within this environment, participants are invited into a hands-on design workshop, working with provided materials to build a collective vessel in response to the music and its emotional resonance. The workshop unfolds in dialogue with the sound — each informing the other as the evening takes shape. The process is as much the outcome as the object itself — an exercise in relational design, shared intuition, and building together.

This event is presented by The Ryze (www.theryze.ca/), a project of JOMA Studios (https://jomastudios.ca/).

For the duration of the festival, we will also have a temporary installation located at the Artspeak Off-site that further explores these themes.