STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The darkest and lightest sounds of music will have one of the borough’s most beloved spaces humming this Sunday.
The Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden will be host to Placed Notes Opus II, a special composition of 31 performing artists who will bring a range of sound as they walk the grounds. According to organizers, the event features “placed notes organized in space creating a musical tunnel or spiral with specific soundscape concepts — one parameter being the cardinal points: lighter keys in the south, darker keys and modes in the north, ascending sounds in the east and descending sounds in the west.”
As the event description explains, “the musicians can walk freely in space and improvise with the notes.”
A second composition will form a tunnel which the audience can walk through to hear melodies connected to their walking speed. A second composition will form a tunnel in which the audience can hear a melody created by the performers in the speed at which they walk through the tunnel.
And a third composition will position the musician in a spiral which the audience will be invited into, so they can experience sounds coordinated by imaginary diagonals, according to event planners: “The work engages with the audience as it allows them [to experience] walking from darker sounds to lighter sounds, from minor to major sounds, from descending to ascending sounds.”
The Oct. 3 event runs from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Ticket purchasing information and additional details can be found here.
This program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps.
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