Yowei Shaw’s Really Good Elevator Music Project Opens March 3

Yowei Shaw's (LTA '13, ACG '13, ’11, ’10, ’09) project Really Good Elevator Music, opens up in the elevators of the Wolf Building in Chinatown North on March 3. This installation
explores the potential of sound to stimulate social interaction and community building in the strikingly diverse Philadelphia neighborhood of Chinatown North/Callowhill.

To test the experiment out, six artists with a connection to this community have been invited to create tracks for a Really Good Elevator Music playlist – which will be played on loop in elevators of The Wolf Building and other public/private spaces in the neighborhood. Really Good Elevator Music hopes to activate these spaces by filling them with a very different kind of Muzak, the kind that challenges participants to rethink their relationship with these spaces, the neighborhood, and each other. Check out the playlist here.  There will be a listening party on March 14 from 6:00pm -8:00pm at the Asian Arts Initiative (1219 Vine Street)