The Immersive Guitar is at once a whimsy, an oversized guitar-shaped building, an intimate concert space, a feat of engineering, a display of sustainability and most importantly, a brand new, immersive musical instrument with unique tonal and acoustic properties. What began as internationally renown guitarist Karin Schaupp’s fantastical dream of wanting to step inside her guitar, soon evolved into a design and building journey by a design team comprising architect Bruce Wolfe, engineer Dr Hassan Karampour, luthier Jim Redgate and artistic co-director percussionist and composer Professor Vanessa Tomlinson. The outcome is an innovative and artistically inspiring instrument capable of making new sounds and enabling musicians and audiences alike to explore what music a new instrument can make.