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The Meridian Music Project
What is the Meridian Music Project?
Art and Science expressing the wonder of high noon happening every place, every day
Connecting communities through a Citizen Science Network expressing how tangible our earth is
Evoking each community’s agency in shaping the evolution of our planet.
We are creating
A network of citizen science art installations, each of which notices local high noon and at that moment offers a local bell and sends into a web network a place-moment pulse which adds a note of multi-media music / data / imagery. The intervals between each place-moment note caused by the time it takes for the earth to rotate under the sun from one place to another.
Imagine the bells ringing, east to west, down the western edge of Manhattan Island. A carillon, starting when High Noon happens where the Harlem River meets the Hudson, and then ringing through the parks along that edge over the 22 seconds it takes for Manhattans west edge to turn under high noon. Crescendoing towards you as you sit, watching the river, ringing at your high noon, de-crescendoing away into the west, daily. [insert image of bells along Manhattan which links to longer description of project]
Imagine a place-moment sculpture on your school campus, in front of your library, in your garden. It’s bell would ring at actual high noon daily, letting you know that the sun is once again over you and your community, briefly, then, earth turning, she leaves, and awakens the notes other communities as each place experiences high noon. Each place-moment note aggregating in displays around the world to show the patterns of life we all share. [insert image of Manhattan School map, linked to longer description. That description uses A Place To Sit Bronx Sketchup animation,] Imagine the countpoint of place-moment pulses sent from installations at all UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Refugee Camps managed by the UNHCR [insert image of UNESCO /UNHCR map, linkied to longer description] Imagine a multi-media display showing the place-moment pulses awakening across a map of our earth. Each pulse carrying a sound chosen by its place-keepers, an image of its Place, and an array of Geo-data that contributes to a map of just how our planet is, place-moment by place moment, over days, seasons and decades, showing us Anthropocene evolution as art expressing science.
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Imagine the bells ringing, east to west, down the western edge of Manhattan Island. A carillon, starting when High Noon happens where the Harlem River meets the Hudson, and then ringing through the parks along that edge over the 22 seconds it takes for Manhattans west edge to turn under high noon. Crescendoing towards you as you sit, watching the river, ringing at your high noon, de-crescendoing away into the west, daily. [insert image of bells along Manhattan which links to longer description of project]
Imagine a place-moment sculpture on your school campus, in front of your library, in your garden. It’s bell would ring at actual high noon daily, letting you know that the sun is once again over you and your community, briefly, then, earth turning, she leaves, and awakens the notes other communities as each place experiences high noon. Each place-moment note aggregating in displays around the world to show the patterns of life we all share. [insert image of Manhattan School map, linked to longer description. That description uses A Place To Sit Bronx Sketchup animation,] Imagine the countpoint of place-moment pulses sent from installations at all UNESCO World Heritage Sites and Refugee Camps managed by the UNHCR [insert image of UNESCO /UNHCR map, linkied to longer description] Imagine a multi-media display showing the place-moment pulses awakening across a map of our earth. Each pulse carrying a sound chosen by its place-keepers, an image of its Place, and an array of Geo-data that contributes to a map of just how our planet is, place-moment by place moment, over days, seasons and decades, showing us Anthropocene evolution as art expressing science.
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Harlem Harmonize
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A Place to Sit
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Apalachicola Festival
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