"City of Floating Sounds" To Turn New Haven Into A Living Symphony

6.18.25
Clara Cortright and the team at Big Voice Communications for Arts Paper

Do you ever feel like you’re drifting through the city, your only companion the music pulsing through your headphones? What if that private soundtrack wasn’t isolating, but connecting you to strangers, to history, to a community all listening with you?

You get to see your city in a new way.
Jennifer Harrison Newman, associate artistic director of the Yale Schwarzman Center

That’s the vision behind Huang Ruo's City of Floating Sounds, an immersive, citywide musical experience hosted by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) in collaboration with the Yale Schwarzman Center and the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. This Saturday, New Haven will come alive not just with sound, but with movement, memory, and connection.

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