Exquisite Corpse at Woodlawn Cemetery: NPR Music Field Recordings

Each June 21, the one-day Make Music New York festival (MMNY) celebrates not just sound but community. It’s a summer solstice gathering of the tribes for music makers and music lovers alike, with more than 1200 outdoor concerts across the five boroughs running from morning till night. For the 2015 edition, the festival’s organizers invited musicians to six different burial grounds across the city to riff on the idea of “exquisite corpse,“ a surrealist parlor game popularized by artists and poets in the 192