Floating Verses is a global community music-art piece created by PHYLLIS CHEN in 2017. Using a series of music box workshops, participants design and create their own music box strips. Eventually, these strips are connected in a quilt-like fashion as a continuous scroll that turns into music. Floating Verses is an ever-evolving piece, hopefully reaching many people of various ages and backgrounds around the world.
The 2-hour workshop is open to all participants to create a music box strip. The strip may be added to the community music-art piece. Dotted throughout the workshop will be short music box performances by Phyllis and other UnCaged artists.
The current version of Floating Verses is a 30-minute sound installation that includes participants from the following places/workshops:
University of Ioannina (Greece)
Oqaatsut Schoolhouse (Oqaatsut, Greenland)
Morris Museum (Morristown, NJ)
Philly Magic Garden (Philadelphia, PA)
Ben Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, PA)
Unison Art Center (New Paltz, NY)
Abrons Arts Center (NYC)