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About the Artist: City in a Soundwalk was an idea hatched by composer Michelle Nagai at the end of 2005 after participating in a 24-hour migration of dance and sound through the streets of New York City, organized by the choreographer Jennifer Monson.
Based in Brooklyn, Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances, walks and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. These works and activities explore the exchange of perception between performer and audience/viewer. Recent projects incorporate through-composed and improvised music for acoustic instruments and electronics, as well as natural environments, found objects, video, costumes, text and material structures fabricated from a variety of media. Nagai's work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe and has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Partners: City in a Soundwalk is a member of the NYSoundmap - a collective experiment in urban sound mapping organized by the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology. In January, 2006, the NYSoundmap was launched as part of SURGE, an exhibit of web-based media art curated by Rhizome and free103point9.
