silence | visible is a 7-minute work composed and directed by Lucy Yao for quartet with flutes and voices specifically written for Franklin Park Ruins. The piece aims to collaborate with Fog and its amorphous qualities and engage in a dialogue with nature’s fluctuating variables. Fog, which blurs boundaries between the beginning and end, inspired silence | visible to explore the cycles of life that are present in nature, and a wish to relinquish control to the uncertainty of the “how”, and “when”, and more on events as they are
happening at that moment. At any given day, nature can give shape to the fog depending on variables that are completely controlled by climate. In this live performance, layers of sound form around the sculpture in an on-site specific work by pianist and composer Lucy Yao.

This project is performed as a response to Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x FLO at the Franklin Park Ruins. Listeners are welcome to walk into the dense mass of sound and fog to experience the work. silence | visible is made possible by the Berklee Interdisciplinary Institute and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.

There will be two performances of this work on October 27, at 3:30 and 3:45 PM.

Lucy Yao is a pianist and composer who enjoys merging contemporary and classical music, is founder of interdisciplinary collective “Strangers in a Room”, chamber music, and teaching. She is based in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

This program is made possible with generous support from Barbara and Amos Hostetter and Eugene M. Lang Foundation.