Sound Garden at Mia
Note: The Sound Garden has been canceled due to weather. We’ll post a rescheduled date soon.
The 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. They 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 or to lay on the ground. We’ll provide a few.
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 also welcome to engage in quiet activities such as meditation, writing, or drawing.
About the Artist
The sound garden is presented by composter/director/historian/organizer JG Everest. He’s a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of engagement, ecology, history, and the emerging field of “neuroarts” through a variety of collaborative place-making practices. He creates site-specific performance installations that connect the histories, ecology, and cultures of places and communities, using spatial sound design as an integral compositional element.
Everest has worked as music director and sound designer, as well as a performer for many projects and performing ensembles, including over a decade each with Catalyst Dance and Roma di Luna. He regularly designs and leads integrative workshops and classes that connect participants to community, their own creativity, and the natural world, through a variety of disciplines and practices. He has brought his immersive, site specific “Sound Garden” installations to outdoor sites in the UK, Canada, and across the U.S. He was a 2019 McKnight Artist Composer Fellow, and 2025 MNPAiR Artist in Residences at Wild River State Park.