Sound designer Perry Brandston grew up plugging away in New York institutions such as CBGB and Fillmore East in the 1970s, and has worked in the audio industry ever since. Recently, he used his deep music knowledge to reimagine Oda, a speaker system that was originally designed in 2016 as a means for the American musician Phil Elverum to broadcast live performances into his fans’ homes. Created in collaboration with acoustician Benjamin Zenker, Brandston’s version—made of wood, glass, cotton, and steel—nods toward a traditional LP record storage box with its understated, unobtrusive appearance. “It has the least physical interaction with a room that I’ve ever encountered,” Brandston says of the flat-panel speaker, which emits sound out of the front and the back. “This gives you many options for placement, and the experience of what happens when you’re in the middle of an audience at a concert.”