Enhance your outdoor environment with one-of-a-kind immersive soundscapes
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.
Private garden sound: immersive sound environments that are custom-composed to client musical interests, based on local nature sounds: an ideal solution to the problems of urban traffic noise, and to create a contemplative, artistic garden space.
I classify the role of site-specific soundscapes for the built environment according to two types of behaviors: the lingering garden, and the strolling garden. The lingering garden is a conceit of Song Dynasty poets, made real in Suzhou outside Shanghai in the 4thC BCE; one with depth of color and texture in a space, with a drip of water or a swish of bamboo. You perch on a rock, wait for the finch to return and whistle a tune, feel the wind swirl the pines. The strolling garden, by contrast, leads you, to a far corner, up a grade, around a hedge to unveil a new vista. Like the visitor in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a bird leads through the Burnt Norton rose garden, flitting from branch to branch as the garden unfolds. It was said of the early Picturesque gardens to emerge in England in the Renaissance, in contrast to the rigor of traditional French symmetrical parterres, that they were the first gardens to "validate the stroll". My soundscapes mirror these goals, matched to the design and function of the garden experience.
Aesthetics and Functionality
The Livingston Sound solution for private gardens is at the intersection of technology (providing continuously evolving real-time generation of music and multi-channel immersive spatialization) and artwork. More nuanced than a fountain, more sophisticated than a windchime, in counterpoint to the natural energies of birdsong and wind, timed to the hours of the day and the usage of the garden space, the Livingston Sound composition fills an aesthetic need that complements the natural environment. It also serves some basic functional needs, especially the elimination of traffic noise through a unique application of Sound Cocoon(tm) technology.
Visit my gardens: a Japanese garden, a St. Francis of Assisi garden, a Sonoma garden, a memorial garden.
Private garden sound: immersive sound environments that are custom-composed to client musical interests, based on local nature sounds: an ideal solution to the problems of urban traffic noise, and to create a contemplative, artistic garden space.
I classify the role of site-specific soundscapes for the built environment according to two types of behaviors: the lingering garden, and the strolling garden. The lingering garden is a conceit of Song Dynasty poets, made real in Suzhou outside Shanghai in the 4thC BCE; one with depth of color and texture in a space, with a drip of water or a swish of bamboo. You perch on a rock, wait for the finch to return and whistle a tune, feel the wind swirl the pines. The strolling garden, by contrast, leads you, to a far corner, up a grade, around a hedge to unveil a new vista. Like the visitor in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a bird leads through the Burnt Norton rose garden, flitting from branch to branch as the garden unfolds. It was said of the early Picturesque gardens to emerge in England in the Renaissance, in contrast to the rigor of traditional French symmetrical parterres, that they were the first gardens to "validate the stroll". My soundscapes mirror these goals, matched to the design and function of the garden experience.
Aesthetics and Functionality
The Livingston Sound solution for private gardens is at the intersection of technology (providing continuously evolving real-time generation of music and multi-channel immersive spatialization) and artwork. More nuanced than a fountain, more sophisticated than a windchime, in counterpoint to the natural energies of birdsong and wind, timed to the hours of the day and the usage of the garden space, the Livingston Sound composition fills an aesthetic need that complements the natural environment. It also serves some basic functional needs, especially the elimination of traffic noise through a unique application of Sound Cocoon(tm) technology.
Visit my gardens: a Japanese garden, a St. Francis of Assisi garden, a Sonoma garden, a memorial garden.
