Part of Millennium Park's opening festivities included a cell phone tour dubbed "Listen In". Four audio works to enhance the visitor's experience. Materville Studios was proud to produce CC Carters contibution 'Takin it to the Bridge'.

The cell-phone tours
It's hard to recall the time when a stroll in the park was peacefully cell-phone free. But in Millennium Park, at least some of us users and abusers have a legitimate reason to be on the phone. Dialing (312)742-2004 on their mobile, park visitors can connect to a new wave of audio touring--five artist-created audio pieces inspired by various Millennium Park landmarks.

"This is sort of the way of the future. The thing is becoming almost a living entity," says organizer Devon de Mayo about the cell phone. "There was a definite need for the park to have a new technology component."

Given the choice of five architectural sites, the artists riff off the park architecture in their own form of creative expression. Poet C.C. Carter narrates the bridge, for example, with musical accompaniment: "I thought it was symbolic of everything that could be put into a poem... the bridge in music is what connects two verses." "

The Best & Worst of Millennium Park was written by Nicholas Baer, Tom Lynch, Mehan Jayasuriya, Ray Pride and Michael Workman.
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