Global Mechanic

Archive for February 2011

New Work from old friend Alex Chen

It is about music and subways…you have to watch it!

Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.

More details at:
blog.chenalexander.com/?2011/?conductor-mta/?
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