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The Brooklyn Bridge Sound Sculpture

 One World Trade Center

New York, 1983

In 1983, the Brooklyn Bridge made continuous sounds created from the oscillating drones of cars moving over a steel grid roadway, which later was silenced in the late 80's by being paved over by blacktop.

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Eight microphones were mounted below this roadway and the live sounds of the Brooklyn Bridge were transmitted to the exterior of a building that also no longer exists, One World Trade Center. This oscillating drone was played from 8 loudspeakers embedded behind the vertical struts of the facade along a set-back high above the Austin J. Tobin Plaza.

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Loudspeakers were also mounted on the observation terrace with panoramic views of New York and the East River.