In 2017, the New World Symphony launched a new community outreach program called Project 305, inviting inhabitants of Florida’s Miami-Dade County to capture and upload digital video and audio samples of their Miami perspective. More than 1000 submissions and over 50 interviews were gathered through this initiative in just over 100 days from distinct neighborhoods all over the region.
This crowd-sourced material was incorporated into an original multidisciplinary work entitled Miami in Movements by filmmaker Jon David Kane and Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer Ted Hearne.
Miami in Movements is a symphonic documentary exploring the Miami identity in six movements. It was performed and projected live by the New World Symphony, led by Michael Tilson Thomas on Feb 22, 2018. The film is made up of five separate and synchronized video channels, projected onto the walls of the New World Center concert hall, above a full symphony orchestra.
The project is a collaborative partnership between the New World Symphony, the John S. And James L. Knight Foundation, MIT Media Lab, and the people of Miami-Dade County. Production and post-production support for Miami in Movements provided by Kismet Creative Studio.