Boston Children's Hospital. Janney lectures widely on his work. He has been a visiting professor at both The Cooper Union School of Architecture and Pratt Institute School of Architecture, where he has taught his seminar "Sound as a Visual Medium". He currently serves as Vice-President for the Institute for Performance Sculpture, Inc. and is President/Artistic Director for PhenomenArts, Inc which specializes in Environmental Arts and Design with studios in Lexington, MA and London, UK. Urban musical instruments Janney has created a number of temporary and permanent installations in the US and Europe titled “Urban Musical Instruments.” A good example of this work is "Sonic Forest" consisting of 8 ft. tall by 10" diameter cylindrical aluminum columns, placed in site-specific patterns. Each column contains a series of photo-sensors, audio speaker, LED cone-light and star-strobe. By strolling among and touching the columns, people trigger the photo-sensors, activating the light and an ever-changing “sound score” of melodic tones, environmental sounds and text. "Soundstair", a site-specific interactive light/sound installation, has toured throughout the US and Europe since 1980. SoundStair: The Nature of Environmental/Participatory Art The original installation, his MIT thesis, Soundstair ©1978, is a permanent piece in the Boston Museum of Science. Other permanent locations of Soundstair (the musical stairs): "Soundstair: Minnesota" - Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN "Soundstair: Macon" - Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA "Soundstair: Charleston" - South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston, SC "Soundstair: CHB" - Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA Other major projects "Harmonic Runway" - Miami Airport, 1995 "REACH:New York" - 34th St. Subway, New York, NY, 1997 "Turn Up The Heat" - an interactive scoreboard for the Miami Arena, Miami, FL, 2000 "A House Is a Musical instrument" - Kona, Hawaii, 2000 "Whistle Grove: The National Steamboat Monument" - Cincinnati, OH, 2002 "Harmonic Convergence" - Miami Airport, 2011 "Harmonic Fugue" - Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 2011 "Sonic Fireflies" - REVEL Resorts, Atlantic City, NJ, 2012 "Light Waves: Atlanta" - Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA, 2012 See also Environmental art Environmental sculpture Sound art Reference works Christopher Janney, Ellen Lampert-Greaux, Beth Dunlop, Sir George Martin (Foreword); Architecture of the Air: The Sound and Light Environments of Christopher Janney; New York: Sideshow Media, 1997. 1950 births Living people American contemporary artists Princeton University alumni American sound artists