Sound & Place Minnesota at the Caponi ArtPark
Hugh Livingston was artist in residence for 2012-13 at the Caponi ArtPark, creating a new opera for the sculpture park (one performance, July 2013). The ArtPark is located in Eagan, MN, just south of the Twin Cities, and is a showcase for decades of work by sculptor Anthony Caponi.
Hugh was the 2012-13 McKnight Foundation Visiting Composer in Residence with the American Composers Forum, featured in a number of projects designed to connect Minnesota communities with the compositional process. Hugh welcomed various groups, including birders, landscape architects and young composers, to the ArtPark for dialogue about art and nature, in July 2013.
The opera will combine live performers traversing the site with fixed sound installations drawn from the rich sonic tapestry of the Minnesota landscape. Hugh has been collecting these sounds since Fall 2012.
Sound & Place: Minnesota
Composed by Hugh Livingston, 2012 McKnight Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum
performed by Zeitgeist
at Caponi ArtPark
July 7, 2013.
Previewed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune!
California composer Hugh Livingston presents a sonically animated summer evening stroll through the rolling hillsides of the Caponi ArtPark. Musicians will flit in and out of the woods, a low clarinet trilling responding to rapidfire marimba in the distance. The musical ideas are a counterpoint to the natural sounds of the park, responding to the birdsong that surrounds us, the rush of the wind in the trees, the trickling of water in streams. Birdcages hanging from trees provide a visual element, with unusual sounds emanating from them, supplementing the live performance with a multichannel sound installation covering several acres. Visitors are free to explore the site in a new way, kids can participate in playing percussion, and everyone can view nature and musicmaking in a different light.
Below is a video showing the sound design elements for this performance.
Hugh was the 2012-13 McKnight Foundation Visiting Composer in Residence with the American Composers Forum, featured in a number of projects designed to connect Minnesota communities with the compositional process. Hugh welcomed various groups, including birders, landscape architects and young composers, to the ArtPark for dialogue about art and nature, in July 2013.
The opera will combine live performers traversing the site with fixed sound installations drawn from the rich sonic tapestry of the Minnesota landscape. Hugh has been collecting these sounds since Fall 2012.
Sound & Place: Minnesota
Composed by Hugh Livingston, 2012 McKnight Visiting Composer with the American Composers Forum
performed by Zeitgeist
at Caponi ArtPark
July 7, 2013.
Previewed in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune!
California composer Hugh Livingston presents a sonically animated summer evening stroll through the rolling hillsides of the Caponi ArtPark. Musicians will flit in and out of the woods, a low clarinet trilling responding to rapidfire marimba in the distance. The musical ideas are a counterpoint to the natural sounds of the park, responding to the birdsong that surrounds us, the rush of the wind in the trees, the trickling of water in streams. Birdcages hanging from trees provide a visual element, with unusual sounds emanating from them, supplementing the live performance with a multichannel sound installation covering several acres. Visitors are free to explore the site in a new way, kids can participate in playing percussion, and everyone can view nature and musicmaking in a different light.
Below is a video showing the sound design elements for this performance.
