Created under the theme ‘untapped capital’ for the Ideas City festival in Manhattan’s Garis and Hahn Gallery, Streetscape Symphony is an exhibition that allows you to experience the five boroughs of New York through sound.
Compiled from street recordings made by 5 artists across eight hour journeys, this soundscape encourages visitors to immerse themselves in the audible, rather than visual atmosphere of one of the World’s most distinctive cities.
Visitors can acoustically travel the entire length of the city by simply exploring each room of the gallery, as motion sensitive cameras map their location and match it with the trajectory of each artist.
The recordings even mirror the time they were initially captured, meaning that visiting in the afternoon makes it more likely to hear the rumble of a Coney Island rollercoaster, as apposed to the bustling nightlife and wailing sirens of New York after dark.