MUSIC
MONDAY - SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 - 18, 2019 (continuing through AUGUST 21)
10:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Christina Kubisch: Electrical Walks
TIME:SPANS Festival
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

Free
https://timespans.org/concert/christina-kubisch-electrical-walks/

This is a very big deal. Since the late '70s, the German composer/sound artist Christina Kubisch has been conducting Electrical Walks in various cities, in which the audience members are given headsets capable of picking up and amplifying the audible components of the electromagnetic waves that, unbeknownst to most of us, blanket the urban landscape (even more so now, with the advent and predominance of portable digital communications devices, than back when Kubisch started). The sounds generated from the electromagnetic waves vary as you go, as the various waves picked up by your headset change. A fascinating -- and, people who've experienced the work say, surprising musical -- aural experience ensues. Kubisch now brings the piece to New York. If you want to go free-style, wandering around at your own will, you just pick up a headset at the DiMenna Center (leaving a credit card as security toward the 'set's return) and head off (you get to use the headset for an hour). Or, on weekdays, Kubisch herself will guide two-hour tours starting at 2:30 and 5:30 PM (while still free, the tours require advance registration).

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: China Xiang is a shockingly good Hunan restaurant -- you won't believe it's there -- down the block from Port Authority.