"Music for Ground and Atmosphere" is a 45-minute live performance on keyboard and guitar interwoven with live improvisation and pre-composed material to respond musically to Olmsted and Nakayas' spatial & artistic decisions.
A sound and dance piece by performance duo Lord and June, HERON interacts with Nakaya’s large-scale fog sculptures at the Leverett Pond site in Brookline. HERON features an ambient sound composition, spatialized by key participants wearing small wireless speakers housed within sculptural vessels and following the performance as it meanders along the path.
This sound composition by Neil Leonard pays tribute to the visionary concepts of Fujiko Nakaya and the sonic imagination of Duke Ellington. The work revisits selected themes by Ellington including Lady of the Lavender Mist, The Kissing Mist and Atmosphere (Moon Mist).
A guided walk through the centuries of a historic landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted with stop at artist Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Canopy. Hear the story of how Frederick Law Olmsted transformed an area of polluted waterways and mudflats into a scenic fens and the later 20th century revisions that resulted in the landscape we see today.
Join the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for an interpretive bike tour from the Fens to Arnold Arboretum, led by a Conservancy docent.
This sound composition by Neil Leonard pays tribute to the visionary concepts of Fujiko Nakaya and the sonic imagination of Duke Ellington. The work revisits selected themes by Ellington including Lady of the Lavender Mist, The Kissing Mist and Atmosphere (Moon Mist).
Help implement a comprehensive woodlands management program and promote a healthier forest through activities ranging from removing invasive plant species to conditioning forest soil. Pre-registration required.
Dadabex: Conservation, Connection and Hybridity evolves from an ongoing collaboration with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich. Neo-dada performance art invites audiences to learn from the story of Alpine ibex, nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century.
Dadabex: Conservation, Connection and Hybridity evolves from an ongoing collaboration with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich. Neo-dada performance art invites audiences to learn from the story of Alpine ibex, nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century.
A performance by Castle in our Skins, "Black Kaleidoscope: A Femme Journey" use Fujiko Nakaya's "Fog x Canopy" to suggest an internal journey of transformation. Through dance, poetry and music, Castle of our Skins will showcase this journey from the lens of Black women, highlighting unique rites of passage through past, present and future.
