About
I was born in Brighton, England, in 1972, and I have spent most of my life trying to answer a single question: what happens when you design an object so well that someone doesn’t just use it — they love it?
That question first found its shape in sound. As a teenager, I was pulled into the emerging acid house scene — designing flyers, clearing warehouse venues, carrying record boxes, building sound systems. I was fascinated by how music created culture around it, how a room could be transformed by the right frequencies moving through the right space. When I discovered discarded speaker components in a skip outside B&W Loudspeakers in Steyning, I started experimenting. What I found changed everything: curved enclosures, free of flat surfaces and sharp edges, didn’t just look extraordinary — they sounded extraordinary.
In 1992, I founded Blue Room Loudspeakers and began developing the Pod speaker range. The HousePod, TechnoPod, MiniPod, Bass Station, CinePod, and MicroPod became a family of sculptural audio objects for people as passionate about style as they were about music. The MiniPod found its way onto Friends, into the London Design Museum, and into the hearts of a generation. Alongside the speakers, I created Blue Room Released, a record label that grew into a global community around electronic music, representing artists like Juno Reactor and The Orb, and staging events from Brighton to Burning Man.
From there, the work expanded but the principle never changed. I founded SiFi and developed the Orb speaker system in ceramic — a material I still consider the holy grail for cabinet acoustics. I built brands in sustainability, hospitality, and personal electronics across the UK, the Middle East, and California. I co-founded TAO Clean and spent over a decade shaping its design language and product development. Through all of it, I was learning to think in systems: not just the object, but the experience around it — the packaging, the brand, the space, the emotional connection.
Today, everything is converging. Through Eye See Sound and my overarching creative vision, United States of Sound, I am building what I consider the most important work of my life. Voyager Sound Systems is a limited-edition line of handcrafted sculptural speakers — each set signed, numbered, and built to the highest specifications I’ve ever produced, featuring Focal Utopia drivers in composite cabinets crafted to Formula One standards. The One Song is an immersive sound installation that brings sculpture and frequency into dialogue. Wavebath is a sound therapy practice rooted in ancient healing frequencies and modern acoustic research. And my ongoing exploration, From the Void Came the Cosmos Itself, is where the collected skills and knowledge of three decades converge for a gallery audience, free of client expectations. And Blue Room Sounds carries the spirit of my original record label forward as a music and culture platform.
I describe my work as functional art. I always have. The forms I create are not separate from their purpose — they are their purpose. Sound is not decoration. It is architecture. And the objects we choose to live with should be worthy of the space they inhabit and the people who inhabit it.
— Simon Ghahary, Southern California
