May 15 – June 12, 2026
A NEW SOUNDS + ART + DESIGN EXPERIENCE
FEATURING VOLUMES BY JOE DOUCET
Four weeks of bespoke listening sessions, primetime performances, and private happenings at Heft Gallery – showcasing the new Volumes listening system during NYC Frieze, Design, and Tech Weeks.
Overview
Transmissions brings together exceptional experiences of music + art into a cross-disciplinary showcase.
This immersive four-week installation at Heft gallery pairs iconic and avant-garde music with contemporary visual art, allowing each to elevate the other in ways rarely experienced. The gallery becomes a listening room for deep engagement with music, art, design, and performance.
Featuring
Extraordinary musicians, performers, and visual artists of all kinds.
Lineup will be announced and updated throughout the month.
Joe Doucet
Designer of Volumes
Brian Eno
Album session — Ambient 1
Caroline Polachek
Album session — Desire
Floating Points
Producer breakdown
Holly Herndon
AI music showcase
Avalon Emerson
Main Transmission DJ set
Steve Reich
Album session — 18 Musicians
Casey Reas
Visuals — Closing night
Auriea Harvey
Live painting
Tyler Hobbs
Generative visuals
Sasha Stiles
Performance
Arca
Avant-garde live
Listening instruments for a new era
Sound, space, and listener
integrated at last.
Volumes is a system of listening instruments designed to transform how sound is perceived. Rather than separating speakers, parabolic acoustic diffusers, and sound-absorbing seating, each element is considered as part of a single, unified experience.
This is not just better sound — it's a new way of experiencing music, where sound is felt as much as heard, and the room becomes part of the instrument. Housed in sculptural, furniture-scale enclosures, the system is engineered for spatial audio at concert-level fidelity.
System DetailsThe Designer
Joe Doucet
Joe Doucet is a designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and creative director whose work sits at the intersection of design, innovation, and sustainability. Named by Forbes as “the living blueprint for the 21st-century designer,” Doucet has received numerous awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian, and he holds multiple patents shaping how design touches everyday life.
Programming
Four weeks. Three frequencies.
Reframing the gallery as a venue for deep listening, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and cultural encounter.
TRANSMISSION SESSIONS
Daytime + early-evening album listens, screenings, and intimate sessions.
Iconic albums played start-to-finish accompanied by custom moving artworks. Music-only films and shorts. Audience-led discovery sessions. Tea and refreshments. No phones, no interruption — recordings heard as intended, on the Volumes system.
Most are $20 — a few are free
MAIN TRANSMISSIONS
Primetime evenings. Live music, paired visuals, special performances.
Curated marquee performances — DJ sets, electronic and experimental live music, album release parties, dance, and live visual making. Each Main Transmission is conceived as a single experience: sound and image together, through Volumes.
$45 – $80 · 3–4 evenings per week
PRIVATE EVENTS
Private dinners, secret release sessions, late-night happenings.
The gallery becomes a private club for closed-door listening sessions, label release parties, design discussions, hackathons, and after-hours experiences. By invitation, by appointment, or by limited ticket.
Price on request
Transmissions Schedule
The Venue
300 Broome Street,
Lower East Side.
Heft Gallery
A 2,500 sq ft gallery with a 1,000 sq ft main listening space and 18-foot ceilings.
Production
All events, installations, and performances are organized by Projekt Blank.
Food + Drink
Sessions include tea and refreshments. Main Transmissions and Private Events feature curated F&B from a rotating roster of NYC partners.
Capacity
150 standing · 40 seated · 6–20 for private VIP experiences.
Get Involved
Be part of the program reshaping how music is felt + seen.
We're still planning programming with musicians, visual artists, cultural events, and select partners. Hosted dinners, fashion-adjacent moments, release parties, and bespoke private listening sessions all live here.
Contact us to get involved
A sculptural listening system. Speaker, diffuser, and seating designed in collaboration with artificial intelligence.
Lead time: 6 weeks. Inquire below
Overview
Volumes integrates audio qualities that typically remain separate — precision and warmth, clarity and depth, fidelity and presence. This is not just better sound. It's a new way of experiencing music, where sound is felt as much as heard, and the room becomes part of the instrument.
Housed in sculptural, furniture-scale enclosures, the system is engineered for spatial audio at concert-level fidelity. Through Volumes, listening becomes physical and immersive — frequencies create pressure and presence, while surfaces shape how sound moves through space, engaging the body as much as the ear.
A unified system
Rather than separating speakers, diffusers, and seating, every element is considered as part of a single, unified experience. This is what makes Volumes a system rather than a stack of components.
Sound as physical presence
Listening becomes physical and immersive. Frequencies create pressure and presence; surfaces shape how sound moves through space, engaging the body as much as the ear.
Sculptural form
Volumes is housed in furniture-scale sculptural enclosures. The objects are designed to live in the room, not hide in it — joining the architectural language of the space.
Designed with AI
Doucet developed the form language in collaboration with artificial intelligence. The result reflects a new generation of object design, where machine and human shape the result together.
Make Volumes Yours
Volumes is being offered as a highly limited release of speaker sets + subwoofers, including custom color options. Interested buyers can arrange a private listening session at the gallery.
Each listening system is priced at $150,000 USD.
Inquire about VolumesHeft Gallery — 300 Broome Street, Lower East Side.