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Pamela Z Manipulates Voices in a Virtual Tour of Times Square - The New York Times - 0 views

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    ""Times3" is the latest work by a veteran composer, vocalist, multimedia artist and "wild virtuoso.""
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'Max Neuhaus - Times Square, Time Piece Beacon' [book review] « Continuo's we... - 0 views

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    Neuhaus appears rather liberal on matters of sound and noise, not surprisingly for someone who started organizing sound events in the 1960s with the LISTEN! Series, 1966-76 - these promenade tours without commentary consisted in walks to inaccessible indu
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Playing the Building | An Installation by David Byrne - 1 views

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    "Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and "play." The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features-metal beams, plumbing, electrical conduits, and heating and water pipes. These machines vibrate, strike, and blow across the building's elements, triggering unique harmonics and producing finely tuned sounds. "
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Nick Cave's Energetic 'Soundsuits' Dance Along the New York City Subway in a 360-Foot M... - 0 views

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    "Spanning the 42 St. Connector between Times Square and Bryant Park in New York City is a troupe of dancing figures dressed in vibrant costumes of feather and fur. The ebullient characters are based on the iconic series of Soundsuits by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave (previously) and are the first part of a massive permanent installation titled Each One, Every One, Equal All in the public transit corridor."
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'The Great Animal Orchestra,' by Bernie Krause - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    "In Krause's world, everything is seen through the lens of sound. He even maps by ear. In one fascinating passage, he surveys a Costa Rican jungle, dispensing with the "100-meter square grids," which anyway "nonhuman animals don't understand." He ends up with "amoebalike shapes, each an acoustic region that, while mutable, would tend to remain stable within a limited area over time.""
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