As New Yorkers we are all familiar with the everyday noise around us – the car alarms, the subway trains braking, the music in bars … Do we not realise how these sounds are affecting us? How they make us feel or act? With this in mind we wanted to create an environment where people could take some time to listen to other kinds of sounds and get away from those familiar sounds of the city. Keeping in mind the birds of the jungle, we’ve created an array of sounds with Animal Collective’s music that is seemingly random – or is it?
—Seminal band Animal Collective describe their latest project, an installation in New York’s Guggenheim Museum opening on March 4th as part of the Museum’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
