MUSIC UNDER NEW YORK: METRO LIVE


The pandemic made people more cautious about riding the subway. The metro stations became empty and subway  buskers, who relied on these interactions, lost income and purpose.


So how can we help buskers get back on their feet?

Music Under New York is an organization that employs buskers and gives them designated areas to perform. We’ll partner with them and the MTA to turn stations into an interactive concert, supporting buskers and bringing life back to the metro in a new way. 

       

How it works

Buskers will collaborate to create songs we can use in the stations they usually play in.

• We'll use sensors on various objects found in subway stations that will emit part of the song.
  
  
• We'll also make those songs into an album which riders can stream  so that the buskers can earn royalties each time the song is played at the stations.