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A new piece of sound art was installed at the San Fransisco Art Institute which mimics and/or satirizes the sinking & tilting Millennium Tower in SF. Created by Cristobal Martinez and Kade L. Twist (known together as Postcommodity), the piece uses computational algorithms to represent the movement of the tower. These sounds are supposed to create a soothing audio and beats which transforms this sinking and tilting into a therapeutic sound. The goal of the project was to encourage relaxation through the power of SF’s scenic beauty. I appreciate how the project aims to take a dire situation and flip it to call for relief from stress in a city. It is not often that art installed in museums is meant to aim to calm people or help soothe anxieties, so I appreciate this approach to art, especially through all you can do with something that can be so calming as sound. Though it doesn’t debut until the 15th, I am excited to see how the sounds themselves might sound and the effect it has on its viewers/listeners.