A Bell for Every Minute on the High Line

Homage to Dan Flavin?

To construct his installation, A Bell for Every Minute, Stephen Vitiello recorded 59 bells around town, including those found on a cat's collar, in a church, at a diner, on a bike, and at the New York Stock Exchange. One bell chimes (or buzzes or echoes or blasts) every minute. On the hour, however, a cacophony goes off, a raging, not-unpleasant, sonorific explosion, in which individual bells metamorphose into one great noise, the sound of the whole city idiosyncratically ringing.

Clock

Cat Bell

Comments

Howard said…
yeah, for ambient-noise-art this wasn't so bad...
Jess and Garrett said…
Three cheers for the High Line! Hope all's well with you.
Howard said…
yeah, everything's ok. we should get dinner again sometime.

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