Heineken Hopes to Create a Subway Symphony by Making Musical Turnstiles

But so far, New York's MTA is silent

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If things go according to plan, the sounds of the New York subway system could change by 2019. At least, that's what Heineken is hoping.

The idea—making the sound of subway turnstiles into little pieces of music—comes from musician James Murphy, formerly the front man of LCD Soundsystem, who has been working for years, to no avail, on what he calls the Subway Symphony.

But now Murphy's got corporate sponsorship from Heineken, which is bankrolling the project and sees it as a way to showcase how the private sector can partner with the public sector to improve cities across the globe.

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