| March 6, 2006 |
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Folksongs for the Five Points
Folk  music isn't dead -- some of it just moved from the country to the city. With a loose theme of immigration and identity, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum invited digital artists to find music in New York's urban landscape. Angolan/Portuguese musician Victor Gama wrote five folk songs for this project, and the soundmap lets you layer those songs with interviews, rehearsals, trains, basketball games, and all kinds of ambient city noise. Mix and mash with sounds as diverse as a leaking hydrant, Mexican poetry, a busker at the Spring St. Station, New Orleans jazz, a Chinese seafood salesman, children playing, the 2nd Avenue train, a sermon at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, and an elderly lady reflecting on the changes in the neighborhood. If you like your new tune, you can save it in the public collection. You'll help keep folk music alive in the Lower East Side. (in Music) |
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