On weekend afternoons, residents of the smith’s House gather to play percussion by the lower parking lot of the complex. It is like karaoke for percussion instruments. Amplifiers are propped on to carts secured with bungee cords. A sound track is played and musicians improvised their own percussion arrangement. Groups of women gather around them and sporadic dances emerged spontaneously. Another group of men are playing a dominoes tournament right side by side, jokes and comments are exchange between musicians and dominoes players.
The Music truck plugs in a Greek Theater style space that provides intimacy and shelter to the participants. The truck unfolds providing the musicians with amplifying equipment as well as extra instruments for spontaneous musicians that may show up announced. Chairs and tables are also stored for the dominoes players.
A similar truck with very different equipment, for the residents that like to garden, is plugged in near the Manhattan Bridge along side a beading of raised beds that cascades down stream from the heart of the neighborhood. The flowerbeds are use for spontaneous gardening and at the same time they retain runoff water from rainstorms. The truck is equipped with garden utensils, seeds, watering cans, gloves, soil, as well as related literature. Extra general literature is available for those who prefer to relax in a bench by the vegetable and flowerbeds.
Similar trucks plug in along side the East River waterfront providing stimuli to activities such as gardening, music, skate boarding, beach playing. The trucks acts as pollinizers of space.
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