“Gaits” is an immersive, site-specific music procession featuring commissioned compositions by Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson, Dan Iglesia, and Cameron Britt in which the wonders of our everyday technology transform participants’ movements into musical Improvisations. Paraders use a free app that captures the GPS coordinates and velocities of their movements to trigger a variety of twinkling metallic sounds, electric guitar chords, dulcimer notes, water splashes, car horns and applause – empowering marchers to effortlessly make music while interacting with their environment and each other.
The “Gaits” app has been newly updated to include the entire length of the High Line from Gansevoort Plaza to Coach Plaza at West 30th and 10th Avenue. Download the iPhone app HERE.
Presented by Make Music New York and hosted by Friends of the High Line.
WHEN AND WHERE:
Participants will arrive between 5:30-6pm at the southern end of The High Line, at the base of the Gansevoort Stairs, Gansevoort and Washington Streets. Participants will be spaced out in groups of 5-10 every 3 minutes. Elevator access is available to the left of the main entryway stairs. The procession will walk north along the elevated park.
The Gaits App is currently only available to iPhone users. Please download the app prior to arrival, at this link.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM COMPOSERS:
Lainie Fefferman makes music by putting dots on lines, drawing curves in software, writing code in boxes, and finding new and surprising ways to wiggle her vocal chords. Her most recent commissions for the creation of original works have been from Recap Quartet, Greg Oakes, JACK Quartet, Aaron Larget-Caplan, Ensemble Decipher, Tenth Intervention, So Percussion, Make Music New York, Experiments in Opera, ETHEL, Kathleen Supové, TILT Brass, James Moore, Eleonore Oppenheim, and Dither. Her one-woman voice & electronics feminist song project "White Fire," an electroacoustic meditation on the heroines of the Hebrew Bible, was released as an album on Gold Bolus Recordings in 2023. She is a co-founder and director of New Music Gathering, an annual conference/festival hybrid event for the international New Music Community. She had a wonderful time getting her doctorate in composition from Princeton University and is a programming/performing member of Princeton-based laptop ensemble Sideband. She currently teaches and advises a fabulous bunch of music makers as a professor of Music & Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology and recently concluded her time as artist in residence at Nokia Bell Labs.
Dan Iglesia is a composer and technologist whose ensembles include Sideband, Spirograph Agnew, and Datalore. His works have been performed by ICE, So Percussion, Yarn/Wire, Talujon, and many more. His A/V work has been at the World Expo, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Kitchen, etc. He is the author of the MobMuPlat app. His work for ensemble and 3D video is featured in the upcoming "3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices" (U Chicago Press). He lives in California and works for YouTube.
Jascha Narveson was raised in a concert hall and put to sleep as a child with an old vinyl copy of the Bell Labs mainframe computer singing "Bicycle Built for Two." He now makes music for people, machines, and interesting combinations of people and machines.
This program is presented by Make Music New York and hosted by Friends of the High Line.
The High Line is both a nonprofit organization and a public park on the West Side of Manhattan. Through our work with communities on and off the High Line, we’re devoted to reimagining the role public spaces have in creating connected, healthy neighborhoods and cities.
Built on a historic, elevated rail line, the High Line was always intended to be more than a park. You can walk through gardens, view art, experience a performance, savor delicious food, or connect with friends and neighbors-all while enjoying a unique perspective of New York City.
