Outside my office window I can see the 2012 installation of
Gypsy Pond Music at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Many will question, "Is this really music?" You could argue this is just a grown up version of every boy's throwing-rocks-at-frogs contest, but as I watch people get drawn to the shore to pull on the buoys or lob a rock at the brass gong in the center of the pond, I realize that this installation is doing what many artists strive to do all the time: it fosters awareness and inspires artistic curiosity; it invites the "audience" to invest some of their own energy in the creative process; and for those who risk participating, it provokes them to persist until they can "hear the music."
I'll up Professor Rush's challenge and double-dog-dare you to check it out yourself.
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