CHLOË BASS RECORD RELEASE PARTY
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 6:30-9PM
PUBLIC RECORDS
233 BUTLER STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11217
Join us on Tuesday, March 24 from 6:30-9pm at Public Records for the limited vinyl release of If you hear something, free something, inspired by Chloë Bass’s public art project in sound presented by Creative Time and MTA Arts & Design.
In a sonic gathering of Chloë Bass’s artistic collaborators, the vinyl record for If you hear something, free something includes the poetic refrains that were echoed and whispered throughout MTA subway stations during Bass’s Fall 2025 public art project, as well as remixes by Bill Dietz and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste of these verses. This aural archive is accompanied by a booklet that includes several essays and an interview, each meditating on the liberatory and relational potential of public address.
Attendance is free. Please RSVP here to secure your spot.
THE VINYL
Preorder your record here, available for purchase on the evening of the event!
In a sonic gathering of Chloë Bass’s artistic collaborators, the vinyl record for If you hear something, free something, includes the poetic refrains that were echoed and whispered throughout the MTA subway stations. Side A of the vinyl record features recordings from Chloë Bass’s poetics verses, each recited by her collaborators. Side B is a series of remixes by Bill Dietz and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste of these verses.
The vinyl record resounds with the possibilities for connection embedded in ordinary gestures of recognition for those with whom we share public space. Alongside this aural archive, the booklet includes several essays and an interview, each meditating on the liberatory and relational potential of public address.
TRACKLIST
SIDE A
Track 1 – If you hear something, free something
Chloë Bass
Vocalists: Gelsey Bell, Jean Ann Douglass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rena Anakwe, Abdelrazek Abdelhamid, Calogero Gambino, Farah Mehreen Ahmad, Natalia Mendez, Olive Zwicky, Samantha Cortez, Vladimir Francois, Wilson Zhang,
Track 2 – [Hidden Track] If you hear something, free something: Live
Chloë Bass
Performers: Gelsey Bell, Jean Ann Douglass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rena Anakwe, Ashley Grier, Samantha Riott, Samara Lubelski, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Jimin Seo, Francisco Marquez.
SIDE B
Track 1 – STAR FRUITS SUB RIDER (got2giveitup)*
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Composer
Track 2 – The name announcing nothing but itself and the memory of what you were doing and thinking other times you passed this way.
Bill Dietz, Composer
ABOUT THE PROJECT
From September 3 to October 5, 2025, artist Chloë Bass debuted her first sound work, If you hear something, free something, a public art commission presented by Creative Time in partnership with MTA Arts & Design. In a monumental and fleeting gesture, Bass interwove 24 poetic announcements into the New York City Transit’s Public Address (PA) system, engaging millions of residents spanning across neighborhoods and social boundaries. Cultivating a practice of everyday care while questioning the usual purposes of public address, Bass played critically with two well-known campaign slogans: “If You See Something, Say Something” and “Courtesy Counts.”
ABOUT CHLOË BASS
Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, conversation, situation,
publication, and installation. Bass has been exhibited and published at major institutions around the world, including recent solo exhibits at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, California African American Museum, Skirball Cultural Center, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven.
PROJECT CREDITS
A special thanks to all of our collaborators and contributors who made this project possible.
Sound Production
Original Sound Design by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste; Sound Production by Gabe Liberti; Studio Engineering by Chedda at Shifted Recording
Vocalists
Gelsey Bell, Jean Ann Douglass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rena Anakwe, Abdelrazek Abdelhamid, Calogero Gambino, Farah Mehreen Ahmad, Natalia Mendez, Olive Zwicky, Samantha Cortez, Vladimir Francois, Wilson Zhang; Casting by Nafisa Kaptownwala
Photography
Still Photography by Ally Caple; Campaign Art Direction by Riley Hooker for Chaos and Precision
Vinyl Booklet
Edited by E. Adamo; Book Design by Riley Hooker for Chaos and Precision
Contributors: Abigail Glasgow, Tom Finkelpearl, Gervais Marsh, Diya Vij, Chloë Bass, Bill Dietz and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Vinyl Record
Sound Production by Gabe Liberti; Studio Engineering by Chedda at Shifted Recording; Record Pressing by Hellbender Vinyl; Side-B Composition by Bill Dietz; Side-B Composition by Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
Video
Video directed by Daniel Pravit Fethke; Editor: Daniel Pravit Fethke; Second Camera Operator Jackson Jarvis; Still Photography Ally Caple
ASL Video Production
DASL Translation by Jeremy Lee Stone; ASL/DASL coordination by Alisha Besher; Video Production by Transcend Streaming
ASL Actors
Zavier Sabió; Treshelle Edmond
Performance
The public performance of If you hear something, free something took place on Wednesday, September 3rd at 12pm at Fulton Center in Manhattan, New York
Performers
Gelsey Bell, Jean Ann Douglass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Rena Anakwe, Ashley Grier, Samantha Riott, Samara Lubelski, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Jimin Seo, Francisco Marquez
ASL Interpreters
Lisa Dennett; David Rivera (Deaf Interpreter)
Performance A/V
Video directed by Daniel Pravit Fethke; Second Camera: Jackson Jarvis; Campaign Art Direction by Riley Hooker for Chaos and Precision; Audio production by Front Stage Sound
Special thanks to Thanasis Psarros and Spiros Sagonas
PROJECT SUPPORT
Project support is provided by Molly Gochman, Eric Richter and Charles Shoener, The New York Community Trust, VIA Art Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The MAP Fund, and Trellis Art Fund.
We are also grateful for the support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams.
Creative Time programming support for 2025 has been generously provided by the Mellon Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.