Band Maps Lower Manhattan By Singing Songs That Correspond To Street Names [Video]

cdza created a musical cartography of downtown NYC by performing songs that commemorated each of the roads they traveled along.

Emma Hutchings Emma Hutchings on September 13, 2012.

Group cdza creates musical video experiments to stretch the boundaries of the medium. They recently took to the streets of Lower Manhattan for a tour guided by song. In their video “City Streets, Famous Musicians,” they map the streets by performing corresponding songs. A Google map shows where they performed, and points to a spot in the YouTube video, featured below, that matches that street name:

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