Creating sound installation and performance projects for Botanical Gardens
Livingston Sound is active in many market segments, providing technological and aesthetic solutions for private and public spaces, indoors and outdoors. We offer unusual audio technologies, robust solutions to noise problems, and continually regenerating soundscapes with multichannel spatialization.
Botanical and sculpture gardens: Larger-scale projects for public spaces that include live performance spectacles as well as sculptural installed components that connect to the site and emit sound. Includes the development of educational components for botanical gardens, connecting to the local flora, fauna and naturescapes in a whimsical, informative manner.
The spectacles designed by Livingston Sound are:
Livingston Sound has a touring musical ensemble with exclusive focus on interactive outdoor musical events. We can also compose music to be played by local ensembles. Our services include both short-run performances that illuminate the garden space with sonic energy, and permanent installations that use discreet audio technology to enhance the aesthetic charge of the environment.
Please continue on to learn about some of our successful and widely attended large garden performance projects.
Botanical and sculpture gardens: Larger-scale projects for public spaces that include live performance spectacles as well as sculptural installed components that connect to the site and emit sound. Includes the development of educational components for botanical gardens, connecting to the local flora, fauna and naturescapes in a whimsical, informative manner.
The spectacles designed by Livingston Sound are:
- Site-specific, collecting local bird and water sounds to inform and educate audiences;
- Interactive, involving electronics that respond to the presence of visitors and live performers who circulate through the spaces;
- Educational, contextualizing the melodies of birdsong by creating musical compositions from them;
- Unique, attracting new audiences to visit the site and engage with the space;
- Transformative, in that they reinforce the desire to explore varied textural and color tapestries: now sound causes the visitor to linger a little longer, to search the hidden corner of the garden, to return to witness an evolution.
Livingston Sound has a touring musical ensemble with exclusive focus on interactive outdoor musical events. We can also compose music to be played by local ensembles. Our services include both short-run performances that illuminate the garden space with sonic energy, and permanent installations that use discreet audio technology to enhance the aesthetic charge of the environment.
Please continue on to learn about some of our successful and widely attended large garden performance projects.
Process for Botanical Gardens
We offer a range of possibilities for activating the public space with sound, drawing in audiences and enhancing the garden experience:
- A permanent sound installation, discreetly installed and integrated with existing or new sculptural elements, offering multiple zones of sonic activity that lead visitors around the garden, highlighting local birdsong and unique local soundmarks.
- A temporary event over several weekends combining live performances with sound components such as interactive electronic and mechanical instruments, featuring local musicians improvising on themes from Hugh's Music for Gardens.
- A single-day event with live choreographed performances encouraging audiences to explore the full range of the gardens, intended as a one-time attendance boost or in conjunction with a planned celebratory event.
