Sonic Babylon Sound Garden Arrives
The Sonic Babylon Sound Garden opens at the Noosa Regional Gallery at 2 pm on Sunday 13 September giving visitors their first chance to hear an exhibition.
Leah Barclay and Steve Weiss will present a live ‘Sound Sculpture ‘performance resonating within the Sound Garden created by New York artists Nora Farrell and William Duckworth.
Sonic Babylon is a global art project planting interactive, invisible gardens of sound that are heard on mobile devices when you visit or pass through. By using mobile devices such as Wi Fi enabled personal mobile phones, laptops, iPhones, iPOD Touch, and PDAs the listener can hear sounds and either edit (prune) or add (plant) new ones.
The artists’ intent is to surround the world with music, sounds and stories. Using local Wi-Fi networks, each ‘garden’ grows in selected spaces within a community allowing listeners access to a world beyond the world they can see.
Sound Gardens allow participants to hear and experience their environment by using only sound and let younger members, who are comfortable with new technology, use their digital devices in different ways. It will also allow the gallery to track local community involvement and participation and has the ability to observe who interacts with the technology and how.
“I'm pleased we are able to present Sonic Babylon at Noosa Regional Gallery,” said John Waldron, Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s Cultural Heritage and Collections Manager.
”This is first time the gallery has included new Wi-Fi media in its exhibition program and it presents a growing opportunity. We are planning to work with artists and curators exploring this media into the future.”
Sound Gardens have been created at the Queensland Conservatorium Research centre at Griffith University, Cairns, Noosa and Southbank in Brisbane and a permanent garden at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.
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