CURRENT
About
“The vignettes [in CURRENT], timed to play at the golden hour, are casual, edifying and candid, asking us to consider the overlapping landscapes of the cemented-over wetlands, the skyscraper canyons, the storm surges — linking the city’s beating heart with the organs of our own bodies and questioning how, after so much distress, we might rebuild.”
— Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
Winner of the 2021 Tribeca Festival Immersive Creative Nonfiction Award and the Tribeca X Award, CURRENT is a site-specific soundwalk though Lower Manhattan accessed via a custom website, using your own mobile device and headphones. CURRENT immerses participants using binaural sound, composition and environmental recordings to draw together a narrative that includes themes of water, time, construction, destruction, synchronicity, and resilience.
CREATIVE TEAM:
CURRENT was created collaboratively by Annie Saunders (concept, direction, devising, narration); Andrew Schneider (concept development, devising, narration, spatialization, on-location recording and sound design); Jackie! Zhou and One Thousand Birds (sound design, engineering and spatialization); OpenEndedGroup (platform technology creation); Octopus Theatricals (creative producing); and commissioned by Arts Brookfield for One Liberty Plaza and One New York Plaza.
Additional narration Kamau Ware, Curtis Zunigha
Project consultation: Curtis Zunigha, Kamau Ware, Jarrod Grim, Lily Stern, Becca Wolff, Sophie Bortolussi, Jessica Williams, Andrew Gustafson, Sarah Nelson Wright, Nate Kensinger, Rafe Knapp, David Abram, Peina Cao, Evan Beamont, Lauren Bille, Timothy ‘Speed’ Levitch, Aaron Oster, Dianne Snake, Danny Lyon, David Rosenberg, Josh Kopecek, Michael Reynolds, George John, Elena Guarinello, Tanner Blackman
This project was created with critical support from Mint House at 70 Pine.
Special thanks: Downtown Alliance, Black Gotham Experience, ONX Studio (NEW INC/Onassis Foundation), Lenape Center, National Museum of the American Indian, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Martha Harlan