John Morton is an American composer best known for his work on the manipulation of music boxes and their sounds. For this work he is often compared to the likes of John Cage is who known for his use of prepared piano technique. Morton approached the public art program with the idea to install a device in the famous Central Park that captures the feel and motions of the park. Morton recorded in the park over 40 days in the course of a year capturing all the sounds heard daily including: the cracking of leaves, ball games, kids singing, poetry recitals, conversations, bells, musical instruments and more. He ended up with hundreds of hours or recordings. Morton then edited down his recordings to short samples. The installation was set up in 2009. When The Delacorte in central park chimes its bells, Mortons installed computer programme records the chimes, plays them back disjointedly and starts a 20 minute composition of the samples recorded within central park with the samples being played back at random. This installation was installed in a tunnel in a busy section of Central Park on the walkway to the zoo.
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