Come on in

Want to know a secret?

There's a food orgy going on
in a community garden near you. Your cast-off apple cores and coffee grinds are begging to be a part of it but they can't join the earthen upheaval alone.

Come closer. Take an intimate look at those steamy compost bins — and at yourself. We won't tell. Unless you want us to.

Share your secret

The lids of our bins may be closed — food scraps prefer to decompose in private — but our ears (and certain other parts) are always open. No problem too small. Or too big. We'll break it down. Together.

sultry [at] softcorenyc [dot] org

Dig In

Get your bin on
New York City Compost Project
Compost Green Map of Manhattan
Brooklyn Compost Project
Bronx Compost Project
Manhattan Compost Project
Queens Compost Project
Staten Island Compost Project

Shovel ready

SoftCore can't — and doesn't want to — contain itself. Like compost, SoftCore wants to fertilize beds, from Rockaway to the Bronx to the deepest crannies of Queens and neglected nooks of Staten Island. Perhaps you know a concrete patch ripe for fertilization or a pile of forgotten food scraps longing for verdant vibration.

Don't be shy.

Find a patch of dry land to inject with unbridled organisms or a fallow part of yourself in need of renewal.

Fess up. What's festering inside you -- and in your greater garden?

People in the Mix

Soft Core NYC was developed
at the 2008 Almost Perfect
Co-Production Residency of the
Banff Centre New Media Institute.

• Laura Silver - master composter
• Tyler Jordan - design / programing
• Ramsés Ramirez- recording engineer
• Price Morgan - consultant
• Kenny Lozowski - consultant

DEEPER LISTENING

A sultry soundscape awaits you beyond the beating green heart. Ease into the delirium of decay with these audio files.