By navigating the sculpture, the viewer encounters a spatialized sonic landscape that is mapped to their physical location using a Kinect 3D camera and custom software written in openFrameworks. The combination of sounds at any spot in the sculpture is unique, as is every trip through it.

(in the afternoon on a day when the sun is shining)

1.

Position yourself in Foley Square, between the Story Corp structure and the fountain.

Press your thighs against the marble rim of the fountain.

Lean forward and get as close to the water as possible with your feet still on the ground.

Listen to the irregular streams of water flopping into the pool.

This water comes from a polluted underground spring.

It is poisoning the neighborhood.

2.

Turn from the fountain toward Thomas Paine Park.

Find the best tree and approach it.

Place you hand on the tree and find its pulse.

Wait until the pulse harmonizes with the bird’s conversations.

Burrow through the soil with your mind, until you find the man who is encased in the tree’s roots.

3.

Cross Center Street and climb the stairs of the courthouse.

Sit at the base of one of the middle columns and look back at the park.

The island of land is a topographical rift in time.

Cars race around it and do not notice.

To the left, a tepid swamp burbles over the curb.

To the right, the ground swells in a hill of chalk.