UrbanRemix Contest with Sounds from Times Square

Times Square Arts and UrbanRemix, the online and smartphone platform for remixing collected sounds, announce a contest for all artists to record and remix the sounds of Times Square into music. The winner for the best remix of sounds into music will be announced in Times Square on May 12th.
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Contest:  Entries Due May 9
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Anyone anywhere is eligible to enter the contest. Contestants in New York are encouraged to visit Times Square and record and upload the sounds through I-Phones and Android based smartphones. Others anywhere can access all the GPS located sounds through the UrbanRemix web site. The contestants can virtually walk through Times Square and mix the sounds into music or soundscapes for the contest. The sounds can be mixed and the free apps downloaded from http://urbanremix.gatech.edu.
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Finalists for best recording and best remix will be played live in Times Square on Thursday, May 12 following performances of the remixes by New York-based electronic musicians Travis Thatcher and Damon Holzborn between noon and 1:30 p.m.   An awards ceremony will be held in the Times Square Visitor Center at 7:00 PM on May 12. 
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The artists of UrbanRemix will led a workshops with approximately 60 students from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, in Times Square, on Friday, April 15. A second workshop with artists and educators from EyeBeam Art and Technology Center was conducted on Saturday, April 16. As a result of the workshops, approximately 600 rhythmic, harmonic, beautiful, annoying, and unexpected sounds have been recorded, located and uploaded.  These sounds can be used for the contest. 
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UrbanRemix
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UrbanRemix is a collaborative and locative sound project that invites the public to explore and express the acoustic identity of Times Square by discovering, recording, and remixing sounds. It has been developed through a collaboration of Georgia Institute of Technology professors Jason Freeman, Michael Nitsche, and Carl DiSalvo. Freeman’s music has been presented in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center Festival. DiSalvo’s digital installation was seen and heard at the Warhol Museum.
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UrbanRemix has been made possible by the generous support of Google, The GVU Center at Georgia Tech, the Georgia Tech Foundation, and Times Square Arts.
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Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, has sponsored the work in Times Square.  www.TimesSquareNYC.org/arts