The Summer Sound Garden returns to Silverwood Park for the first time since it premiered here in July 2018! Come experience this spatial sound score at the island site for which it was originally composed and designed! With live roving accompaniment by members of the Free Range Orchestra & Choir and site-specific poetry written for the site.
Credits and Highlights from the premiere performance in 2018
Summer Sound Garden at Silverwood Park in July 2018
Entrance to the Summer Sound Garden at Silverwood Park
Site-specific photography by Jeffrey Skemp
photo by Sarah Musgraves
birdhouse speaker
Guided Poetry Tours
w/ Teresa Ortiz, Chavonn Shen, Tim Blighton, Jeffrey Skemp
Free Range Orchestra
photo by Sarah Musgraves
Free Range Orchestra members JG Everest and Jacqueline Ultan
photo by Sarah Musgraves
photo by Sarah Musgraves
Love Butterfly Niyana at the Summer Sound Garden
Blue Lady & her Love Butterflies
photo by Sarah Musgraves
Free Range Orchestra w/ Poetry Reading
photo by Sarah Musgraves
Guided Poetry Tours
photo by Sarah Musgraves
Dancing Love Butterflies
Photography and Sculpture
wooden basket by Josh Seevers; photography by Jeffrey Skemp. Photo by Sarah Musgrave
playing the chimes hanging in the shelter
Mosaic sculpture by Claudia Valentino and JG Everest
site-specific photography by Jeffrey Skemp
Blue Lady & her Love Butterflies
Blue Lady at the Summer Sound Garden
Historical archive photo exhibit
SUMMER Sound Garden
Free Range Orchestra
site-specific photography by Jeffrey Skemp
Entering the Island in Silver Lake
Poets / participants Chavonn, Margarita, Marcella, and Teresa
Sound Garden mural banner by Muralist Tim Blighton
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
