I’ve always wondered what it would be like to bring musicians into the abandoned Whale Creek Transfer Station in Greenpoint.
The cavernous interior was made so that trash trucks could dump directly into barges headed out to sea. You can still see the openings in the ceiling, where millions of tons of trash must have tumbled through over the decades. The whole thing is empty now, totally quiet, waiting for some new cacophony.
Jennifer Sirey, Michelle Segre, and Jennifer Coates liked the idea. They are great artists; Sirey trains ecosystems of living mutant biologies, Segre conjures unfathomable dreams with weblike gargantua, and Coates captures the brutal horror of springtime in dripping toxic paint. But more important for our mission that night, they are all musicians too.
Here are the songs the sirens sang:
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