NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is presenting the immersive sound installation “Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3,” from Dec. 12 through July 19, 2026, featuring a large-scale, handmade audio system by multi-disciplinary artist Devon Turnbull. The opening of the listening room marks the museum’s kick off to a series of music, sound and design-oriented programming over the next months and is part of the “Art of Noise” exhibition, opening in full Feb. 13, 2026, and organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Known under his creative pseudonym OJAS, Turnbull is a Brooklyn-based artist and audio engineer who handcrafts high-fidelity audio systems designed to envelop the listener in sound that is as rich in texture as it is in emotion.

“Created as a ‘shrine to music,’ this listening room series invites visitors to experience music in a space designed to slow down and reflect, bringing back the joy of experiencing and sharing music together,” Turnbull said. “My intention is to return to the kind of immersive listening we experienced when we were young, free from outside distractions. Presenting this work at Cooper Hewitt is especially meaningful to me, having grown up visiting the museum.”

The listening room features Turnbull’s custom-built speaker sculptures, designed to offer natural, realistic sound, along with seating by USM Modular Furniture and textiles by Kvadrat.

“HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3” is the third of Turnbull’s listening rooms, experiential sound installations that have garnered a following around the world since their first launch at Lisson Gallery in New York (2022) and later presentations in London (2023) and SFMOMA (2024), where “HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 2” was last presented.

For this latest iteration for Cooper Hewitt, Turnbull created a custom design for the museum’s historic Carnegie Library space, making this the largest and most architecturally and acoustically integrated version to date. His installations have also appeared in public venues, including Public Records, the Nine Orchard Hotel, Patina Osaka and Supreme stores worldwide, and in private collections of leading musicians and producers.

“As part of ‘Art of Noise,’ Turnbull’s ‘HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3’ is an opportunity for visitors to have a rare and transformative dedicated listening experience and surrender to high fidelity and enveloping sound,” said Joseph Becker, curator of architecture and design at SFMOMA. “At Cooper Hewitt, Turnbull has taken inspiration from the incredible millwork in Andrew Carnegie’s library for the site-specific design of the custom speakers.”

The listening room will be programmed daily and activated throughout the run of the exhibition with either special live operator appearances or genre specific playlists. Turnbull, along with noted music collectors, archivists, audiophiles and musicians from the New York area and beyond, will operate the live sonic experiences Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Outside of the live operator appearances, visitors are invited to listen to playlists selected by Turnbull. This winter, the playlists will rotate daily with the following offerings: Mondays, classical; Tuesdays, genre mix; Wednesdays, ambient; Thursdays, genre mix; Fridays, jazz; Saturdays, genre mix; and Sundays, genre mix.