The Music Bench
The Music Bench is an interactive art piece designed to persuade human collaboration and interaction in public spaces through Music and Lights. Each seat of the bench plays a different instrument of a Song therefore it needs all the seats to be taken to play the entire music composition. The Music Bench can be modified to play different tunes and melodies by changing the code in the programming sketch.
The Music Bench is currently in the Medialab of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and has been showcased in:
-The Medieval Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
-Uris Center at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
-NYC Medialab of Future Interfaces in Razorfish
-Arte Actual in Quito, Ecuador
-ITP Winter Show
Untill now The Music Bench has played the following music compositions:
-W.A. Mozart Overture to the Opera The Marriage of Figaro, orchestrated by students from the Film Scoring Department in NYU Steinhardt and produced by adjunct professor Sergi Casanelles
-Transitions by Joan Jeanrenaud