Indoor Sound Garden
The Indoor Sound Garden is an experiential offering to support personal well-being and resilience. Throughout history, humans have turned to the arts to express our joy, soothe our fears, ease our grief, and build community.
About Sound Gardens
Sound Gardens are self-guided, durational events, designed for a deepening experience over time, enriching the relationships between participants and the particular places they are planted. Developed and designed by composer/director JG Everest as an extension of his work with site-specific dance and performance, Sound Gardens represent a new way of experiencing sound and music as a spatial, 3D accompaniment to the “concerts” and “dances” that are already occurring in nature.
What to Expect: “A Concert You Can Move Through”
The Sound Garden is self-guided experience. You’re invited to sit, stand, lie down, and move around as you wish. Feel free to bring a blanket to lay on the floor. We’ll provide a limited number of blankets and yoga mats.
While designed to be a deepening experience over time, you’re welcome to drop in at any time during the experience and stay for as much or as little time as you’re able to.
We request that you limit talking while in the Sound Garden so as to not disturb yours or others’ listening experience.
There’ll be optional opportunities for reflection and participation. You’re welcome to bring something to write on if you’d like.
Presented by Mia in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing
Presenter
Composer/director JG Everest regularly teaches music, sound design, and listening approaches to students, artists, and musicians of varied backgrounds, in workshops, classes, and private lessons. He also works as a consultant for organizations and individuals seeking new perspectives and creative solutions. Everest is a 2019 McKnight Artist Composer Fellow, and in recent years has been working in the emerging field of “neuroarts,” at the intersection of neuroscience and artistic practice, with a focus on community well-being.