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).
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.
Join us as we leave the workday far behind and meander among the blooms of the Kelleher Rose Garden and pathways of an eclectic and historic Victory Garden and immerse ourselves in artist Fujiko Nakaya’s “Fog x Canopy” installation. A stroll for the senses!
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).
Presented in collaboration with Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace, Sherlock Holmes & The Case of the Emerald Necklace is an original series of free, short audio plays featuring the world’s most famous detective.
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).
Using 3D video projections on a variety of surfaces, Bennett's goal is to activate sensations of touch, sight, and proprioception in ways that both decenter the senses and create moments of intimate connection.
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).
Using 3D video projections on a variety of surfaces, Bennett's goal is to activate sensations of touch, sight, and proprioception in ways that both decenter the senses and create moments of intimate connection.
Using 3D video projections on a variety of surfaces, Bennett's goal is to activate sensations of touch, sight, and proprioception in ways that both decenter the senses and create moments of intimate connection.
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.
Join us as we leave the workday far behind and meander among the blooms of the Kelleher Rose Garden and pathways of an eclectic and historic Victory Garden and immerse […]
Join us as we leave the workday far behind and meander among the blooms of the Kelleher Rose Garden and pathways of an eclectic and historic Victory Garden and immerse ourselves in artist Fujiko Nakaya’s “Fog x Canopy” installation. A stroll for the senses!
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.
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.
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).
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).
Designed and produced by artists Andy Graydon and Isabel Beavers, Accomplices is a series of six printed postcards that invite visitors themselves to perform small micro-compositions on each site in response to and collaboration with each of Nakaya’s sculptures. One card is available at each location of Nakaya’s sculptures, as well as at the Emerald Necklace Conservancy's Shattuck Visitor Center, and is designed specifically for that park site and sculpture.
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.
A sound and dance performance by composer Mattia C. Maurée, Wayfinder observes how many cultures learned from nature to navigate by starlight. Movement evolves as one journeying performer (violin/voice/dance) chances upon another (bells/voice/dance), reaching out in the natural world trying to find their way. Finding themselves connected by a thread, they find their way, connection, and some kind of peace.
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).
In Beau Kenyon's the SOUND (if trees were water), dancers will be costumed in sculptural, sound-emitting pieces as they move around and through the audience, enveloping them in the spoken words of teenage immigrants woven together with an original sound score and under a blanket of Nakaya's ethereal fog sculpture.
"practices in the imaginary: reading" is a piece for two people, performing slowly, quietly within Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Beach sculpture.
Luke Martin is an experimental composer, performer, and poet currently living in Boston, MA. His work focuses on the concepts of silence, blandness, and social sculpture and is primarily interested in exploring limits of perception and methods of re-evaluating (and altering) processes of everyday life, i.e., ways of being in the world.
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.
Discover Fog x FLO with kids in family drop-in activities at the Arnold Arboretum's Fog x Hill sculpture. September 15th: Drop in for a Hydrophobic Lab to find out how fog interacts with other […]
During six 20-minute sessions led by martial artist and fitness instructor, Dorri Li, participants will experience tai chi and qigong movements as an expression of qi flowing through the human form. Li’s aim is to explore and advance a greater understanding of and appreciation for the energy that animates and connects us with the natural world.
In Beau Kenyon's the SOUND (if trees were water), dancers will be costumed in sculptural, sound-emitting pieces as they move around and through the audience, enveloping them in the spoken words of teenage immigrants woven together with an original sound score and under a blanket of Nakaya's ethereal fog sculpture.
During six 20-minute sessions led by martial artist and fitness instructor, Dorri Li, participants will experience tai chi and qigong movements as an expression of qi flowing through the human form. Li’s aim is to explore and advance a greater understanding of and appreciation for the energy that animates and connects us with the natural world.
Our landscape and public spaces are changing fast and so is how we look at them. And not only us. Can one visit a place without ever being in it? […]
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).
Particles in our atmosphere, whether from the natural environment or from human-built engines, affect climate in ways we don’t yet fully understand. MIT Professor Dan Cziczo will speak of particles and clouds in our atmosphere and how climate is influenced by them.
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.
Please note: This event has been cancelled due to heavy rain and a flash flood warning from the remnants of Hurricane Florence. We apologize for the inconvenience, and welcome you […]
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).
Without the art of music, how does one make sense of the world around them? Their feelings perfectly laid out on a sheet of paper, no words, just the soothing sounds of ignited passions, lovers laughing, trees in the wind, fresh sea air on a perfect Sunday. All of these images, emotions and experiences are left empty.
Named a “one-woman dynamo” by The Boston Globe and The Improper Bostonian’s 2018 “Creative Catalyst”, Maria Finkelmeier is a percussion performer, composer, educator, and arts entrepreneur. She is the founder and director of Kadence Arts, a Boston-based non-profit organization and co-founder of Masary Studios, a sound, light, and performance collective. "Flow Through" will consist of three 20-minute performances at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30pm.
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).
After decades spent underground beneath a parking lot, a portion of the Muddy River has been uncovered to see daylight once again. Hear the story of how river and parkland […]
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).
The Emerald Necklace Conservancy's Shattuck Visitor Center has fresh new displays, and we want to share them with you! Enjoy refreshments, view our new exhibit Sculpting with Water and join us for an appearance of Fog x Canopy, part of our ongoing public art exhibition Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace.
Volunteer to help care for the roses. Training, tools and gloves supplied. Pre-registration required.
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).
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).
The Boston Pops, in partnership with the City of Boston, will perform a special free concert in Franklin Park on Sunday, September 30 at 3 p.m. The concert is preceded by a […]
Tour Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace with FLO (Frederick Law Olmsted) himself! Join Olmsted (local historian and actor Gerry Wright) on a guided "symphonic walk" around each of Nakaya's fog sculptures.
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).
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).
Playing gong, singing bowls, and bells, Nancy Aleo will create a gong soundscape responding to the shifting wind, the flowing fog, the hissing sculpture, voices, and the natural sounds of […]
Discover Fog x FLO with kids in family drop-in activities at the Arnold Arboretum's Fog x Hill sculpture. September 15th: Drop in for a Hydrophobic Lab to find out how fog interacts with other […]
The site-specific piece is based on the Fenway Memory Project, an oral history of the neighborhood. It was created for Fujiko Nakaya's Fog x Canopy installation in the Back Bay Fens.
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).
