Site specific Sound Walk

 

Meander is a site-specific sound walk created for Brooklyn Botanic Garden that guides listeners on a meditative stroll into the natural landscape.

Created by Joseph White and HERE Arts Residency Program artist Gelsey Bell, the composers who brought you Cairns (included on the New York Times “Best Theater of 2020” list),  Meander encourages listeners to watch, listen, and reset their clocks to pastoral temporality, inviting them to sink into the complex patterns and fine details of the natural environment. Listen and explore at the Garden or see the virtual audio walk below while you listen from home.

The recording refers to blooming cherry trees, which, according to the BBG cherry map website, are not yet blooming.

 This reminds me of David Hockney's Road Trip with Audio 

Here's a NYT article about another sound-walk by Bell called "Cairns" (also set in Brooklyn, in the Green-Wood Cemetery).   

Here's a link to "Cairns."