City of Floating Sounds

Pushing the boundaries of classical music performance, City of Floating Sounds composed by Huang Ruo, uses cutting-edge creative technology to take music into the city. Guided by a mobile app, members of the community take one of several different walking paths through the streets of New Haven while listening to fragments of Ruo’s meditative work on their phones sans headphones. As the journey begins, participants experience just one section of the orchestra and gradually, more and more instruments and melodies are added as they cross paths and contribute unique strands to the City of Floating Sounds musical arrangement. All paths converge at the New Haven Green where the full score comes to life with an immersive performance by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra conducted by Music Director Perry So. City of Floating Sounds is presented by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and Yale Schwarzman Center. Commissioned by Factory International, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, National Taichung Theater, Taiwan and West Kowloon Cultural District

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