Artist Tom Sachs has created a series of unconventional but fully operational boomboxes.

Sachs’ creations demonstrate his love for music, and for sculpting the systems that play it. “I hooked my Sony Walkman up to a set of mini speakers and velcroed them to a block of scrap plywood. It was a clusterfuck of wires,” he says in the press release for Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999–2015.

“In 8th grade woodshop, I made a box for the whole mess out of pine,” Sachs continues, describing his longtime love affair with building boomboxes. “It had a knob to hang the headphones that was made out of a broomstick.”

The exhibition features a total of 15 sculptures including ‘Duralast’, a bronze rendering of a stack of car batteries, and ‘Miffy Mountain’, a large-scale sculpture of the beloved children’s book character. Sachs has also curated playlists from both friends and pop icons to be played through the boomboxes.

Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999–2015 will run at The Contemporary Austin, Texas, from January 24 until April 19.

You can view some of the images below and see the rest via The Creators Project.