An art and engineering practice.
We build two kinds of object — kinetic works for the gallery and instruments for audio — and we treat them as one discipline. Draw the thing completely before it exists. Build it so it can be understood, maintained, and repaired. Publish what it actually does, with its limits stated.
Art
Art-machines and kinetic installation — from the auto-lysis thesis exhibition to current gallery work.
Art →
Audio
The whole chain as components — converters, amplification, loudspeakers, a binaural recording head, and engineered room sound fields.
Audio →
Consulting
Nonlinear and embedded control, simulation, and the path from a model to a part a shop can cut.
Consulting →Modelling is the discovery engine
We model the real build, not an idealisation — component tolerances, thermal floors, what a shop can actually hold. Honest modelling keeps collapsing our designs into simpler, better ones. That is the point of it, not a tax on it.
Modelled before it is made
Control systems and signal chains in MATLAB, Simulink and Simscape; analysis and tooling in Python; circuits and boards in KiCad; geometry in parametric CAD. Whatever the domain, the thing exists and is checked as a model first — and the renders on this site are the same files a shop would quote from.
Documentation is the product
An instrument you cannot open is an instrument you cannot keep. We publish measurements with their limits, and ship manuals good enough to assemble, maintain, and repair from.
Enquiries, collaboration, or a quote.
takis.zourntos@emads.org
Takis Zourntos — founder
emad studio, inc. · Toronto, Canada