Furniture Music is a project by Chris Kallmyer created to redesign the sounds of the home. The work is shaped by Chris’ fifteen years of studio practice as an artist and musician in Los Angeles. From this perspective, Furniture Music creates sounding home goods and research-based projects for active listeners, architectural applications, and to promote social well-being through sound.

Featured in the New Yorker and The New York Times, the wind chimes have a tone characterized as “surprisingly complex” by the music writer, Alex Ross. The designs are based on the circle of fifths, a system of organizing harmony favored by musicians like Pythagoras and John Coltrane, visionaries like Donna Summer and Erik Satie, and degenerates from Ancient Mesopotamia to Contemporary California.

Furniture Music collaborates directly with architects, individuals, and cultural institutions on projects that use sound as a tool to address the relationship between people and the land they call home. New projects include a fountain to mark the home and studio of The Blind Potter, copper chimes for the iconic California design studio, Commune, and fresh doorbells for the home.

Furniture Music is located on the Silver Penny Farm in Sonoma County, California.