48 Wind Chimes

15 Orient presents 48 Wind Chimes, a site-specific sound installation by experimental composer and instrument builder Skip Laplante.

Featuring an array of chimes suspended above Cortlandt Alley and installed across the gallery's seven east-facing windows, the exhibition centers on a recurring motif within Laplante’s five-decade exploration of the sonic possibilities of ordinary objects and the minimal components of instrumental form.

Each chime realizes a distinct acoustic constellation…