Friday, August 25, 2017, at 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Villa Montalvo,
Saratoga, CA
Join artists Taraneh Hemami and Hugh Livingston as they
introduce you to their new sonic artworks commissioned for Montalvo’s latest
outdoor exhibition, Now Hear This!
In a family-friendly drop-in workshop, Livingston will
invite visitors to explore the principles of bird communication and use deep
listening techniques to identify found sounds they can use to invent their own
bird song. These new bird songs will be added to Livingston's sonic menagerie,
Birds of Invention: A Garden Opera, in Montalvo’s Italianate Garden. In
addition, Hemami will invite visitors as well as some special guests to
activate her sound sculpture One Voice (Yek Seda) -- also located in the
Italianate Garden. Poet Monica de la Torre and composer Hans Tammen -- both
Lucas Artist Fellows -- will also participate.
Cost: $10
