I'm not generally a fan of music on websites, but in this case (especailly in the exhibitions) music just seems to fit.  I've received numerous requests to know what the site music is, so below is a list of tracks and links to purchase.

 

All music can be turned off by clicking the icon on the track.  The general site music will stop playing as you move from one gallery to another that has its own track and, should you wish it to continue the previous song when you move away from that gallery, you can click the icon and it will continue from where you left off.

 

The list below includes bolded links to purchase, to artist and album info.

 

general site music:

• Avril 14 (by Aphex Twin) performed by Alarm Will Sound fm album: Acoustica

 

gallery music:

• new acquisitions: Beautiful World (by Colin Hay) fm album: Going Somewhere

• stereoviews: Adagio from Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major (Andrew Manze, The English Concert) fm album: Mozart 3 Violin Concertos

 

exhibition gallery music:

• un ballo in maschere: Hide your Face (by Spade Cooley and his orchestra) fm album: Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley

• bang bang: Bang Bang (my baby shot me down) (sung by Nancy Sinatra) fm album: How Does That Grab You

• caption this: Dido & Aeneas, Act III (sung by Dame Janet Baker) fm album: The Legendary Dame Janet Baker

• cats & dogs: Cats and Dogs (by Camille) fm album: Music Hole

• ...more cats and dogs: Cats and Dogs (Live) (by Toni Price) fm album: Sol Power (Live)

• colored folks: Color Me Once (by Violent Femmes) fm album: Permanent Record: The very best of the Violent Femmes

• the damaged: Cry Me a River (sung by Mina) fm album: The Platinum Collection

• divers, acrobats & acrobatics: Lean on Me (by Bill Withers) fm album: Lean on Me, The Best of Bill Withers

• early kodaks: Kodak Moment (by Nickasaur!) fm album: Rawr!

• focus group: I'll be Seeing You (sung by Nataly Dawn)

• gay int.: El hombre que yo ame (The Man I Love) (sung by La Freddy) fm album: Freddy, La voz del sentimiento

• industrial magic: Player Piano Study 6 (by Conlon Nancarrow, arr. Mikashoff; performed by Alarm Will Sound) fm album: A/Rhythmia

• the kiss: You're Nearer (sung by Rufus Wainwright) fm album: Rufus does Judy at Carnegie Hall

• minority report: Embraceable You (1954) (sung by Sarah Vaughan) fm album Desert Island Disks: Sarah Vaughan

• miscellanea & pop photographica: I've Got Rhythm (played by Hiromi)

• objets d'art: The Object of my Affection (sung by Emmy Rossum) fm album: Sentimental Journey

• painted press images: Paint by Numbers (by Los Guys) fm album: Between Dark and Dawn

• performance anxiety: You've Been Acting Strange (sung by Merry Clayton) fm album: Gimme Shelter

• photobooths, photomatics & arcades: Una madre comio asado (by Osvaldo Golijov; sung by Dawn Upshaw) fm album: Ayre & Berio: Folksongs

• safety in numbers (series): Variations on a Theme by Andre Previn) fm album: Previn at Sunset

• sleeping beauties: Somewhere Over the Rainbow (performed by Jake Shimabukuru) fm album: My Life

• that thing called love (sex, etc.): A Thousand Kisses Deep (by Leonard Cohen) fm album: 10 New Songs

• two's company: Two's Company (performed by emily skinner and alice ripley) fm album: Skinner/Ripley: Raw at Town Hall

• south africa: Pata Pata (sung by Miriam Makeba) fm album: Pata Pata

• rochester: I gotta go places and do things (by Cab Calloway--who was born in Rochester!) fm album: Best of Big Bands: Cab Calloway