The Park Avenue Tunnel Will Ring With the Sound of...Crustaceans
The art installation is part of NYC's "Summer Streets" celebration
Friday, August 01, 2014 - 01:14 PM
"Dive," a sound installation in the Park Avenue Tunnel
(courtesy of NYC DOT)
For three Saturdays this month, the sounds of car traffic in
Midtown Manhattan's Park Avenue Tunnel will be replaced with...the
sounds of crustaceans, fish, and glaciers.
It's part of the city's annual Summer Streets celebration, which closes off seven miles of Park Avenue to car traffic. Activities and performances are planned on stops along the route (see map below), but arguably the centerpiece of the event this year is "Dive," a sound installation by Norwegian artist Jana Winderen. According to the New York City Department of Transportation, the installation uses "sounds recorded from shallow to deep underwater environments in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Canada, USA, Thailand and most recently around the equator in the Caribbean and the Pacific."
Dive will be open from 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for the first three
Saturdays in August. To see it, enter the tunnel at Park Avenue and 32nd
Street.
It's part of the city's annual Summer Streets celebration, which closes off seven miles of Park Avenue to car traffic. Activities and performances are planned on stops along the route (see map below), but arguably the centerpiece of the event this year is "Dive," a sound installation by Norwegian artist Jana Winderen. According to the New York City Department of Transportation, the installation uses "sounds recorded from shallow to deep underwater environments in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Canada, USA, Thailand and most recently around the equator in the Caribbean and the Pacific."
Installing "Dive" in the Park Avenue Tunnel for Summer Streets (image courtesy NYC DOT)
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Kate Hinds
Kate Hinds is an Associate Producer for WNYC News. She also reports for WNYC and Transportation Nation, a public radio reporting project that combines the work of multiple newsrooms to provide coverage of how we build, rebuild and get around the nation.
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