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Article: The Shul That Sings
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- The Jewish Week
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- December 27, 2002
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Goldman, Julia
The Jewish Week
12-27-2002
Tour guides at the Eldridge Street Synagogue welcome visitors to the
Moorish-style building near the Manhattan Bridge with stories from the
115-year-old structure's history. Thanks to composer Matthew Ostrowski,
these days the building also speaks for itself. Or, rather, it sings.
Through the agency of a Power Macintosh G3 computer, Ostrowski's
arrangement of whirling whispers, shuffling feet and shofar blasts fill the
synagogue's soaring sanctuary in an audio installation called "The Singing
Building."
Ostrowski, 40, who began composing electronic music in the 1980s' downtown
improvisation scene, imagined he could excavate sounds that have been
absorbed ...