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...
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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