Excerpt: 5 minutes, 17 seconds
For stereo audio, mp3 player, headphones and walker. Ongoing, but first experienced during the 2007 Conflux Festival.
Almost Grand is the first in a series of Park Bench Cinema projects - musical cinematic dreams for specific times and places: in this case, a walk down Williamsburg's Grand Street to the East River, forty-five minutes before sunset.
Participants begin by downloading the mp3 and loading it onto their audio player. Then, exactly forty-five minutes before sunset, they meet in front of The Change You Want To See gallery, at 84 Havemeyer Street [see map], press play, head towards Grand Street and then take a right onto Grand Street, walking down it all the way to the water (about a fifteen minute walk), where they sit on park benches and rocks and engage with the cinematic dreamscape. My hope is that Almost Grand will heighten the senses and people's connection with the sights and sounds around them, through a soundtrack made primarily with recordings from the area itself.
Anyone is free to download the mp3 and engage in the walk/sit at anytime, although leaving forty-five minutes before sunset on a clear day is suggested for maximal synchronicity.
25 minutes, 17 seconds
Right-click or control click HERE to download the soundwalk on mp3.
Click HERE to see sunset times
See map of route below:
I'd love to hear your thoughts and questions at bb(at)princeton.edu.
