A shout out to blogger Jax Lewis who highlighted Soundwalk’s Time Square, BRONX: Graffiti, DUMBO, Ground Zero, and Williamsburg Women’s Hasidic Walk as “Five New Ways to See New York” on her “art and culture without the fuss” blog Finding Five.
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SOUND TUNNEL: CENTRAL PARK
Monday, July 6, 2009
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