Portals 🔗

A museum exhibit where every display is a screen showing a security camera feed from a different part of the exhibit.

Variation 1: Cameras are located at strategic angles throughout the exhibit.

Variation 2: Cameras are behind each display, pointed at the viewer.

Roasted Art 🔗

Create an oven-safe canvas. Arrange assorted vegetables on it and roast them. Keep the caramelized residue as art. Eat the vegetables.

Living Spaces 🔗

An empty apartment building is handed over to artists, who decorate each room as if a quirky personality lives there.

Mashed Up 🔗

Variation 1: Popular songs are stuck together like puzzle pieces, at points where their melodies overlap.

Variation 2: Popular songs are stuck together like puzzle pieces, at points where their lyrics overlap.

Audio Scene 🔗

A large blank room with hidden speakers everywhere, emitting the sounds that complete an imaginary scene.

Example: An imaginary farm, where a cow moos from one corner, and the farmer's wife calls for him from beyond the door. Water is running from an imaginary spigot, and a chicken clucks as it wanders the room.

Shadows, Plays, and Movies 🔗

Variation 1: Half the parts are filmed, the other half are live actors acting the missing parts in front of the screen.

Variation 2: Half the parts are actors on stage, the other half are silhouettes of actors behind a light screen.

Variation 3: Half the parts are filmed, the other half are shadow puppets from the projector.

Pixel Music 🔗

Sample a digital image and map pixel colors to notes. Search for images by keyword and play an orchestra of similar images.

Kite Writing 🔗

Long-exposure photography of colorful kites, taken from the ground on a day with blue skies and clouds.

Programming Music 🔗

Take a practical computer program, map notes to keywords, variables, or other syntax. Execute the code on various inputs to create music.

Play Acting 🔗

Variation 1: A simple solo piano piece where the majority of the notation is comments on how the pianist should act while playing a note.

Variation 2: A ballet solo where the ballerina occasionally dances to a piano and plays a couple notes. Perhaps an annoyed pianist is playing accompaniment.

Pokemon, the ballet 🔗

...starring Magikarp!

Live Action Gaming 🔗

Street Fighter contestants taking orders from the audience.

Reverse Tourism 🔗

Stand in or on tourist attractions. Take photos of other tourists.

Musical Stress Relief 🔗

Install a giant xylophone in a padded room. Allow guests to bring in giant mallets and let out some musical feelings.

Ringtone Medley 🔗

An orchestral piece using popular ringtones as motifs.

Fight Song 🔗

Spar with musical swords that resonate in different tones depending on the type of swing.