Site-Specific
From full orchestras to intimate ensembles and unexpected sonic pairings, Metropolis Ensemble brings music installations and immersive experiences into surprising site-specific locations.
Featured Project
Biophony: SoundGarden
In 2023, composer Ricardo Romaneiro and Metropolis Ensemble created an audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.
More Projects in this Collection
Paula Matthusen’s expansive, twenty-four hour, multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection presented at Wesleyan University.
Experience the summer solstice in a kaleidoscope of sound and ecstatic music. Featuring Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Erik Hall.
Choose your own sonic adventure with Metropolis and Kaufman Music Center’s teen new music program.
An audiovisual tapestry and lighting installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden running in sync with plant-generated binaural soundscapes and live musicians.
Larger-than-life bird stilt walkers and bird puppets dance to processional music in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
September 18th, 2021
This event, presented for the first time as part of Make Music Autumn, is the grand finale of Metropolis Ensemble’s summer-long project where the orchestra-collective's musicians and composers created their own new music pop-up events across NYC.
Each performance and listener-experience of Biophony at Brooklyn Botanic Garden will be unique, as determined by the unlimited flexibility of instrumentations, the topography of the site, and the freedom given to participants to choose their own musical adventure.
July 21—September 17, 2021
Introducing a city-wide ritual bringing new music to new places.
December 4-23, 2020 / The Wethersfield Estate
A brand-new, live, immersive, reimagining of the Holiday Classic for safe family viewing
IN PARTICIPATION WITH ON STELLAR RAYS
Matthew Evan Taylor with animations by artist JJ PEET
May 5, 2017
Involving musicians and electronic elements placed through several floors, galleries, and former domestic spaces of The Phillips Collection.
May 8, 2016
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