ALLY CAPLE

Creative Time Press Release

August 14, 2025

“Creative Time is thrilled to announce our next major public art commission, If you hear something, free something by Chloë Bass, presented in partnership with MTA Arts & Design.

What do we hear when we ride public transportation? Who is speaking to us, and what are we being asked to do?
 
Artist Chloë Bass debuts her first sound work, If you hear something, free something, a public art commission presented by Creative Time in partnership with MTA Arts & Design. The MTA serves millions of New York City residents daily, spanning every single neighborhood and social boundary. It is where every denomination of New York City meets. A monumental but fleeting gesture, Bass makes use of New York City Transit’s PA system with a series of sonic artworks consisting of 24 poetic announcements that build a practice of everyday care and question the usual purposes of public address…”

For more project information, visit creativetime.org/if-you-hear-something-free-something/

Art Direction: Riley Hooker for Chaos & Precision

Photography: Ally Caple

Production: Amy Pekal

Video: Transcend Streaming

From September 3rd to October 5th, 2025 experience If you hear something, free something in the mezzanines and passageways of the following stations:
 
Manhattan
Fulton St (4,5)
14 St-Union Sq (4,5,6)
42 St-Bryant Pk/5 Av (7)
Grand Central-42 St (S)
163 St-Amsterdam Av (A,C)
 
Queens
Court Sq (7,G)
74 St-Broadway (7)
Mets- Willets Point (7)
 
Brooklyn
Clinton-Washington Avs (G)
Fort Hamilton Pkwy (F,G)
York St (F)
Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr (2,3,4,5)
 
Bronx
167 St (B,D)
Westchester Sq-E Tremont Av (6)