TAO - The Anonymous Orchestra - MAX NEUHAUS TIMES SQUARE -

The sound of New York subterranean life.
Times Square Sound Sculpture by Max Neuhaus.
His most famous piece, or at least the one that has been heard by the most people.
It was installed in 1977 beneath a traffic island in Manhattan where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge, just south of 46th Street. Thousands of pedestrians a day traipse over a wide grate that appears to be nothing more than a steam escape hatch for the subway system below, but as they cross it, they are enveloped by a deeply resonant and mildly undulating drone.
(New York Times)
This is Another World Production New York by Paolo Paci.
February 2009

Category:

Music

Tags:

• New York
• Max Neuhaus
• Times Square
• jazz
• street music
• Broadway

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This was quite a surprise for me and my wife. We were shooting some pictures and video in Times Square this past week when we heard the sound emanating from the grates. When we asked the people we were staying with in NY what it was they assured us it was just the subway. It's really neat to find the real source of the sound.