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Brookfield Place Palm Garden |
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The view form the Brookfield Place |
Brookfield Place is a great indoor shopping/ dining area, with a beautiful palm garden inside - the only one palm garden in New York. Outside located there is a Waterfront Plaza where live music and films take place during warm weather. And this summer the Plaza has a new addition- musical swings.
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The Montreal-based design firm, Daily tous les jours installed at the plaza a set of ten swings that emit sounds as you swing. There are four instruments represented in the swings: piano, harp, guitar and vibraphone. Each swing triggers sound when participants swing back and forth.
The seats have sensors that link to a computer that responds to motion with music. Swing alone and you’ll hear notes. Synchronize your swinging with those beside you and you make beautiful music together.
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In 2012 the same company installed 21 Swings in Montreal. Pre-recorded sounds from a xylophone, piano, and other instruments were programmed into color-coded swings that when in use play various notes, however when swung in unison with careful cooperation, more complex melodies and harmonies arise.
Artist, Melissa Mongiat, one of the co-founders of Daily tous les jour, says that the group worked with animal behavioral scientist, Luc-Alain Giraldeau from the Université du Québec à Montréal, to explore how the musical cooperation would work. “People cooperating is important,” says Mongiat. “The point is that we can accomplish more together than alone.”
When I visited Brookfield Place there was no line. During peak times, visitors have a suggested five minute time limit on the swings. If you are there with kids there are two excellent parks close by- Nelson Rockefeller park with huge green lawns and beautiful sculptures done by Tom Otterness and a Teadrop park- a real treasure hidden in from the tourists hidden from the tourists.
“The Swings” will be on display at Arts Brookfield from June 10 to July 7 from 12 pm to 8 pm daily, and is free to the public.
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