June 21st, 2007

Music in the Streets [UPDATED]

» Posted in NYC, Shows, Tech at 6:18 am

I’m sure you’ve seen them everywhere: The AM New York leaflets left out for the "Make Music New York" on the weekend.

Lots of stuff, but not much I’d go out on a limb and see. This here is a little list of some of the more interesting jump offs.

The institution that is The Tank is putting on an 8-bit show. I’ve probably used the term "8-bit" too loosely around here. Considering one of the dude’s names is Bit Shifter, you might be able to guess what to expect. Here’s a sample.

You can actually hear Mario shrinking: "Hexadecimal Genome"

[Financial District, 6pm to 8pm. White St (btwn Church and Bdway.]

Cave Art Space is hosting an Immersive Music installation. I didn’t know there was a CAVE in New York! (It’s a terrible acronym for Cave Automatic Virtual Environment.) [Williamsburg, 4pm and 8pm. 58 Grand St between Whythe and Kent Ave.]

I’ve got no idea what kind of music this’ll be, but Beth Morrison is going to have another installation, but with surround sound and built materials. Hopefully it will be as cool as this one she did.
[Upper West Side, noon to 8pm. Morningside Park, W 112th St.]

Eyebeam, the technology and arts center, is hosting some sort of music/art installation. [Chelsea, 4pm to 7pm. Btwn 10th Ave. and West Side Highway.]

Update: Hopefully none of you took any of this info too seriously or anything, because apparently, neither did the organizers of "Make Music NY". I only know about the shows I worte about here, but two of those four had the wrong listings. The Morningside event was nowhere to be found, and the Cave show didn’t start until sundown (that was a mission of a bike ride for nothing!)

In other corrections today - this one my own fault - the Cave Art Space is named after a natural cave, you know, like a hole in a wall? Nothing to do with virtual environments.

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