Gaits is an immersive, site-specific parade featuring commissioned compositions by Lainie Fefferman, Jascha Narveson and Cameron Britt and in which the wonders of everyday technology transform participants’ movements into musical improvisations.

Paraders attach their smart phones to small, wearable speakers and use a free app that captures the GPS coordinates and velocities of their movements to trigger a variety of twinkling metallic sounds, electric guitar chords, dulcimer notes, water splashes, car horns and applause – empowering marchers to effortlessly make music while interacting with their environment and each other.

 To join, register in advance by email and follow the link below to download the free Gaits application to your phone; speakers are available on loan for the first 100 participants. 

Make Music Winter, first launched in 2011, is a free, outdoor musical event each December 21st that turns audiences into music makers. Inspired by Phil Kline’s annual Unsilent Night, a boombox parade that has become an international tradition, Make Music Winter transforms New York’s cityscape with participatory musical parades on the winter solstice, running the gamut of musical genres.

Check in at 5:45pm; the piece begins at 6pm at the southern end of the High Line, at the base of the Gansevoort Stairs. The parade proceeds north along the elevated park to W 34th St.