Steam Tunnel Music

Steam Tunnel Music

The gist: once a year, on New Year's Eve, New York's Pratt Institute turns its underground steam infrastructure into a gigantic musical instrument.

BLDGBLOG sez:

The implication here, that you can attach pieces of musical instruments, and even old ship parts, to your city's existing infrastructure and thus generate massive waves of sound is pretty astonishing; this might be a very site-specific thing, to be sure, and something only Pratt has permission to do to its own steam tunnels, but the mind reels at the possibility that this could be repeated throughout New York.