TIMES SQUARE — An orchestra will perform in the middle of Times Square this month — but only a few hundred people will be able to hear it.
On Aug. 21 and Aug. 22, up to 400 people will be able to listen to a “silent orchestra” perform songs from musician Jherek Bischoff’s newest album through wireless headphones, Times Square Arts said in a release.
“Cistern,” a music video from Bischoff’s album, will broadcast on Times Square’s billboards during the concert.
Bischoff has been lauded as a “phenom” by The New Yorker, his website says.
“The video features Bischoff as a lone, tuxedoed figure awakening from the earth to traverse the expanses of the globe, covering the most extreme landscapes of the ocean floor, arid salt flats, glaciers, and mossy rainforest, ultimately retiring under a star-studded sky,” the release said.
The album was inspired by sounds he created in an empty water tank underground, Times Square Arts said.
“This is our most ambitious experiment to bring sound to our iconic silent surround cinema,” Times Square Arts director Sherry Dobbin said in a statement.
The event will take place between 11 p.m. and midnight on both nights, the release said.
Those who can’t make it to the orchestra concert can catch “Cistern” on Times Square’s billboards each night in August, from 11:57 p.m. to midnight, as part of Times Square Arts' "Midnight Moment" series.
