OMBRA

The OMBRA speaker. A warm silhouette of a singer glows behind its frosted glass face.

OMBRA

OMBRA
OMBRA OA-1
LIGHTBOX SPEAKER
MAIN STAGE · 40 W
SCENE ENGINE
ON-DEVICE
284 × 208 × 116 mm

There's a man in the box.

A speaker with a stage inside. Every song becomes a performance you can watch.

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Streaming gave you ten thousand songs and nothing to look at. Music turned into a number on a screen. It lost its body.

So we built it a stage.

OMBRA on a walnut credenza, the silhouetted singer glowing warmly through the frosted face.

Meet the man in the box.

Behind the frosted glass lives a performer. Press play and he sets down whatever he was doing, picks up the guitar, and begins. Not a screen. A someone.

The Stage

Every song sets its own scene.

An on-device engine reads the song and stages it: performer, light, weather. Pick a track. Watch him take his mark.

Same song, same stage. The scene is seeded by the track itself, so his show never repeats by accident.

Four archetypes.
Two hundred pieces.
One stage.

The engine composes each scene from a modular library. These are the four rooms he plays.

STUDIO
OMBRA beside headphones on a marble desk, the performer mid-take behind the glass.

Late take, close mic. For songs that sound like a confession.

STAGE
OMBRA on a floating wooden shelf in a bright loft, lit from within.

Full lights, full band. For songs written to be sung back.

INTIMATE ROOM
OMBRA on a living room sideboard next to a glass of whiskey.

One lamp, one voice. For the records you keep for midnight.

AUDIENCE
OMBRA viewed from an angle on a walnut credenza.

You, watching from the dark. The room becomes the front row.

The words surface through the glass.

Lyrics rise through the diffuser in time with the vocal, then dissolve. Legible from the sofa, invisible when the song doesn't need them.

And between songs he doesn't vanish. He tunes the guitar, paces the studio, lives his small life in there, until you need him again.

No feed. No notifications. A performance you glance at the way you glance at rain.

OMBRA glowing on a sideboard across a living room.

Built like an instrument.

Machined aluminum, frosted polycarbonate, acoustic textile. Target specification for the first run.

Close view of the brushed aluminum frame and frosted face on dark marble.
40 W Two full-range drivers and a passive radiator, tuned for voice first.
CNC unibody Machined aluminum shell. The bezel is the proscenium arch.
Top plate of OMBRA with a machined volume knob and speaker perforations.
BT 5.3 + Wi-Fi Plays from anything. Recognizes songs on-device, no account required.
3 modes INK, CHROMA and FRACTURE. The scene engine runs on the speaker, not the cloud.
284 × 208 × 116 mm 2.4 kg frosted polycarbonate, 1.2 mm scene library: ~200 modular pieces

Kickstarter, first run

The curtain lifts soon.

Early seats at $599. After the first run, $999. One email when the lights come up.