Hymn to the Manhattan Bridge live connectivity page
This page was set up to carry the live feeds of Hymn to the Manhattan Bridge on June 21st, so the feeds have now been disabled.
Here you can listen to (and sometimes watch) the 24 hours of Hymn to the Manhattan Bridge, live as it happens. Like Hymn to London Bridge, I'm playing underneath the Bridge, with sensors mounted on a walkway far above my head. This time the sensors register the passing of cyclists crossing between Brooklyn and Manhattan as blips of silence imprinted on the music I'm making unknown to them, far beneath their feet. Here's the blog of my first impressions of the bridge. And here's a FAQ of what I'm planning.
I'm setting up a microphone so you'll be able to hear the EXTREME ambient noise - trains passing overhead, roadworks next door, fire trucks passing by. It's a noisy place, and it's going to be interesting to see how that impacts on the music. Super quiet ambient may not cut it...
I will be checking Twitter throughout, so tell me what you think of it. You can embed both the Mixlr audio stream and the video feed in your Facebook page if you can't cope with being off Facebook for too long. I can't hear the streaming direct so let me know if it's not working or is really distorted.
As I discovered under London Bridge, it's quite hard to guarantee continual internet out in the open, so there may well be connection problems that could lose the link to the audio stream below. If that happens you might have to go direct to my page at Mixlr to hear the streaming audio.
Fingers crossed it works out okay.
Not sure what's going on?
Well...
From the Make Music New York website:
"On June 21st, British artist and electronic musician Nick Franglen will play a 24-hour piece of improvised music, starting and ending at midnight, in collaboration with the thousands of people who walk or bicycle across Manhattan Bridge during the course of the day.
Franglen will be installed in The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, playing a Theremin with looping effects pedals to create washes of sound. Meanwhile, sensors installed on Manhattan Bridge's pathways, high above The Archway, will register the passing of each bicycle, sending messages to Nick's equipment that imprint a moment of silence on the music for each cyclist who crosses the bridge. The music will be a unique collaboration between the musician and the bridge users, who will unwittingly guide and develop the character of the piece."
From the Make Music New York website:
"On June 21st, British artist and electronic musician Nick Franglen will play a 24-hour piece of improvised music, starting and ending at midnight, in collaboration with the thousands of people who walk or bicycle across Manhattan Bridge during the course of the day.
Franglen will be installed in The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, playing a Theremin with looping effects pedals to create washes of sound. Meanwhile, sensors installed on Manhattan Bridge's pathways, high above The Archway, will register the passing of each bicycle, sending messages to Nick's equipment that imprint a moment of silence on the music for each cyclist who crosses the bridge. The music will be a unique collaboration between the musician and the bridge users, who will unwittingly guide and develop the character of the piece."
