Stereotank’s HeartBeat Fills the Air in Times Square

New York City is celebrating the opening of its seventh annual Valentine’s Day installation in Times Square. As part of Times Square Alliance’s heart design competition, Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born firm Stereotank has constructed their heart-beating urban drum in hopes to bring New Yorkers together through music.

© Clint Spaulding for @TSqArts

“HeartBeat is a heart-beating urban drum,” says Stereotank. “This engagement sculpture consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency heartbeat sound which changes its rate as visitors approach, move around and engage with it by playing various percussion instruments and joining the base rhythm of the heartbeat. The audience is invited to come together and creatively play, listen, dance and feel the vibrations of the heart while enjoying the warm pulsating light. In the emblematic, active, flickering atmosphere of Times Square, Heartbeat orchestrates multiple rhythms into a unique urban concert.

© Clint Spaulding for @TSqArts

“HeartBeat is equipped with various percussion instruments. Each drum has unique sounds and resonant characteristics. Membranes of different sizes and materials such as synthetic snare skin, synthetic snare skin with coil, animal hide, and hard plastic are used to create a variety of drum timbres.”

HeartBeat will remain on view through March 8. 

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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. "Stereotank’s HeartBeat Fills the Air in Times Square" 13 Feb 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/598879/stereotank-s-heartbeat-fills-the-air-in-times-square> ISSN 0719-8884

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