Jace Clayton DJing. Photo credit: Erez Avissar
June 18–22 at 4 p.m.
Steps of Federal Hall next to New York Stock Exchange, at Broad and Wall Street
Gbadu and the Moirai Index is an experimental musical composition and performance piece by Jace Clayton for four vocalists and the stock market. Daily performances will be staged on the steps of Federal Hall—in view of the New York Stock Exchange—with singers representing the Moirai (the three Fates) and Gbadu (their West African counterpart). Each singer’s vocals are processed and transformed by real-time financial data, mapped to character-appropriate stock market indexes. Although the score is fixed, each performance will sound radically different due to market fluctuations.
Costume designer: Rocio Salceda
Software designer: Bill Bowen