Composer Phil Kline has harvested sounds from New York's evening ritual and assembled them into this two-minute collage, “Every Night at 7”
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New York’s noise has a distinctive grain, a multilayered clangor that changes with the decades but retains its personality. Composers have often mined the soundtrack of the streets for raw material. John Cage wove an entire musical philosophy out of random noise. John Adams opened his 9/11 memorial symphony, On the Transmigration of Souls, with recorded sounds of a loud city turned low.
For Kline, collecting and editing these bits of pandemonium was a way to remain connected to the city while he waits out the epidemic 120 miles up the Hudson Valley. “Doing this helped ground me,” Kline says. “I’ve lived in New York for most of the last 50 years, and right now I feel like I’m in two places, or nowhere.”
The idea for his latest work sprang from the music writer Steve Smith, who tweeted a plea: “Meant in the most respectful way possible: I would love to hear a sound collage à la @unsilentphil [Kline’s Twitter handle] made from all the sounds that emanate from NYC windows every night at 7 these days. If I had any skill at such things, I’d try to make one myself.”
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