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A community driven multimedia project is coming to the Fenway this fall that will take submitted photos, videos and sounds. Then mash, mix and “glitch” them together, and then project them onto buildings for all to see.

In conjunction with the Fenway Alliance and the Fenway Community Center, artists Maria Finkelmeier and Allison Tanenhaus are behind the audio-visual mural project, Frequencies, and now and until September 12 are soliciting media submissions from those who live, work and play in Fenway.

A Google form to submit media for the project can be found accessed at fenwayculture.org.

This is the fifth project of its kind from the duo, with previous installments as close as Hyde Park and as far away as Florida.

“What we do is we partner with local organizations, and we crowd source media. Whether that’s photos, videos, sounds, from people who live, work and play in certain neighborhoods that capture their everyday life,” said Tanenhaus.

They then take all that raw source material and transform it using Finkelmeier’s background in music and production and Tanenhaus background in glitch-video art, to create a vibrant music video that gets projected onto buildings.

Frequencies will be presented at four different pop-up appearances at major locations across East and West Fenway culminating in a major celebration of the project at Cisco Brewers Fenway on Thursday, October 23 at 7pm.

Finkelmeier said that due to the community-sourced nature of the projects, each one has come out differently than the others, sharing between them only that they’re reflective of the identity of the area. Not even they know what the project will end up looking like until they’re close to finishing it.

“We love the more random, and kind off the cuff stuff. We’re not looking for anything professional or polished. It’s all going to get remixed and reconfigured,” said Finkelmeier.

“We love having a huge variety of stuff to work from and being delighted by what we can do with it.”

When announced those who visit the pop-ups will receive a postcard that they can turn in for a prize during the final celebration of the project. The four pop-ups will be held for one night each for two weeks leading up to October23.

Locations and times of the pop-ups will be announced by The Fenway Alliance.

Part of their objective, says Tanenhaus, is to present a kind of participatory art where members of the community get to have a hand in creating the piece and to explore their own neighborhoods in finding and seeing the art.

“It’s in the moment, you go, and you experience it live with other people. Is ephemeral and then poof, the projector turns off and the art disappears,” said Tanenhaus.

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