Post by orioles70 on Sept 24, 2020 16:01:37 GMT
this sounds interesting - a bit like Pokemon Go, except instead of looking for mythical pocket monsters from a kid's game as you explore an area, you experience music composed to fit the beauty or feeling of a place. Enhanced reality. Not something you'll want to turn on all the time, just when you're relaxing and in the mood to discover. Maybe it's more like listening to your playlist when you're at the gym, except that the playlist is made by someone else and adapts to where you decide to go.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ellen-reid-soundwalk-central-park/2020/09/23/9b3c5bd2-fc20-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
composer Ellen Reid’s “Soundwalk” — an app-based, GPS-enabled, shape-shifting musical experience mapped onto NYC’s Central Park and available to anyone with a smartphone and some me-time
A co-commission from the New York Philharmonic, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (where it will appear in 2021), the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Britt Festival Orchestra, “Soundwalk” was inspired specifically by the terrain of Central Park. But as site-specific works go, this one is compellingly nonspecific. It’s composed of a vast array of overlapping, interlocking musical “cells” that rise and fall in your ear buds as you walk (or jog, if that’s your thing) through the park. And while the primary “Soundwalk” will be situated in Central Park at least through the remainder of this year, its cells can also be reconfigured and mapped to other locations. Thus, the water theme Reid wrote for the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park sounds as natural among the chorus of geysers at Saratoga Spa State Park, where “Soundwalk” will be active until Nov. 1.
while the 840-acre rectangle of Central Park provided a tidy canvas for Reid to imagine the piece, the path that listeners choose to take through the music remains a wild variable. “You don’t know what people are going to do!” she says, laughing.“It was such an exercise in letting go.”
Reid started composing “Soundwalk” amid the peak of the city’s struggle against the pandemic in March, and she recorded individual “cells” with members of the New York Philharmonic, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and jazz ensemble Poole and the Gang.
She also prepared “Easter eggs” for wandering listeners to stumble upon: a 2011 live recording of Bernard Haitink leading the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony arrives upon a swell of applause as you pass his statue at the Central Park Mall’s northern end. And the cascading flutes that trickle in as Bethesda Fountain comes into view introduce Reid’s most recently premiered complete work, “When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist” — commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of its “Project 19” series highlighting contemporary women composers.
Someone needs to do a Rock or Pop version of this. Who better than the master himself? Come on Jeff, I know you've got time on your hands while the tour is suspended.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ellen-reid-soundwalk-central-park/2020/09/23/9b3c5bd2-fc20-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
composer Ellen Reid’s “Soundwalk” — an app-based, GPS-enabled, shape-shifting musical experience mapped onto NYC’s Central Park and available to anyone with a smartphone and some me-time
A co-commission from the New York Philharmonic, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (where it will appear in 2021), the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Britt Festival Orchestra, “Soundwalk” was inspired specifically by the terrain of Central Park. But as site-specific works go, this one is compellingly nonspecific. It’s composed of a vast array of overlapping, interlocking musical “cells” that rise and fall in your ear buds as you walk (or jog, if that’s your thing) through the park. And while the primary “Soundwalk” will be situated in Central Park at least through the remainder of this year, its cells can also be reconfigured and mapped to other locations. Thus, the water theme Reid wrote for the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir in Central Park sounds as natural among the chorus of geysers at Saratoga Spa State Park, where “Soundwalk” will be active until Nov. 1.
while the 840-acre rectangle of Central Park provided a tidy canvas for Reid to imagine the piece, the path that listeners choose to take through the music remains a wild variable. “You don’t know what people are going to do!” she says, laughing.“It was such an exercise in letting go.”
Reid started composing “Soundwalk” amid the peak of the city’s struggle against the pandemic in March, and she recorded individual “cells” with members of the New York Philharmonic, the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and jazz ensemble Poole and the Gang.
She also prepared “Easter eggs” for wandering listeners to stumble upon: a 2011 live recording of Bernard Haitink leading the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony arrives upon a swell of applause as you pass his statue at the Central Park Mall’s northern end. And the cascading flutes that trickle in as Bethesda Fountain comes into view introduce Reid’s most recently premiered complete work, “When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist” — commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of its “Project 19” series highlighting contemporary women composers.
Someone needs to do a Rock or Pop version of this. Who better than the master himself? Come on Jeff, I know you've got time on your hands while the tour is suspended.
, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?