Composer John Morton stands, listening, inside the pedestrian tunnel just north of the Central Park Zoo in New York City, the location of his recent audio portrait ‘Sound Tunnel’.
“…Thanks to Mr. Morton, six high-end speakers, a computer and a generous helping of musical avant-garde smuggled into the city’s populist playground — the tunnel itself has found a voice: a strange, urgent one that screams, whispers, sings, declaims poetry and recreates the multifarious sounds of the park around it, from jackhammers and horses’ hooves to cracking winter ice…”
For the full story: Randy Kennedy‘s New York Times article, ‘Sound Tunnel: Avant-Garde Park Portrait’
Listen to ‘Sound Tunnel’ samples here
Image: Michael Appleton/ The New York Times
Upon approaching the art work of French duo Pierre et Gilles, photographed here by Stephan Crasneanscki, inside the Chanel Mobile Art exhibit, you hear a track featuring music duo CocoRosie‘s “Qui Qu’a Vu Coco”. Soundwalk collaborated with Chanel Mobile Art to create the dynamic sound installations on the interior and exterior of Zaha Hadid‘s Chanel Mobile Art container. CocoRosie’s “Qui Qu’a Vu Coco” was commissioned especially for the soundscape of Chanel Mobile Art and is available exclusively for Soundwalk fans here.
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Image: Stephan Crasneanscki
‘KILL THE EGO’ , an audio portrait of New York City conceived by Soundwalk, visually interpreted as a motion painting film by Rostarr and directed by Jim Helton & Ron Patane, will be the feature presentation of NEW FILMMAKERS New York Wednesday July 8th at 9:00PM Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Ave.
Listen to excerpt from ‘KILL THE EGO’
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