{"id":378,"date":"2011-01-31T14:22:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-01-31T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T14:22:04","slug":"take_the_a_train_html5_edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/01\/take_the_a_train_html5_edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the A Train (HTML5 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Google engineer Alexander Chen + HTML5 + NYC subway scheduling equals sonic art using tension in the line.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19372180?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The video above is just a sampling of the sonic magic available live on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.me\/\">the Conductor site<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.me\/\">www.mta.me<\/a>) which &#8220;turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA&#8217;s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But hey, no &#8220;holding the doors&#8221; improv, okay?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">[via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\">waxy<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google engineer Alexander Chen + HTML5 + NYC subway scheduling equals sonic art using tension in the line. The video above is just a sampling of the sonic magic available live on the Conductor site (www.mta.me) which &#8220;turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA&#8217;s actual subway schedule, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}