Mon May 13, 2013
Kaiser Rooftop Garden Soundwalk
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Come welcome the sun together, experience a meditative sound bath with aromatherapy, and create sound poetry from listening exercises on the soundwalk taking place on the beautiful Kaiser Rooftop Garden. This 3-acre garden with a pond is located on the 3rd floor of the Kaiser Building near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Please meet on the ground level at the CVS at 344 Thomas L Berkley Way under the tree near the Webster St. side of the CVS. Please arrive 15 minutes before the 12:30pm start time. Your guide, sound artist Andrea Williams, will be holding a red balloon. Only 15 spots are available and spots may fill up quickly so please RSVP here:
http://www.listeninglistening.com/kaiser-rooftop-garden-soundwalk.html
Artist Bio:
Andrea Williams is an artist, composer, and educator currently based in Oakland, CA. She enjoys using site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Listening, memory, urban ecology, and group collaboration are recurrent themes. Her compositions, soundwalks, installations, and videos have been exhibited and performed both solo and with various artists at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently at the Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Joyce Theater Soho, Children's Creativity Museum, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is the Co-Director for the sound art non-profit, 23five, a Co-Founder of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
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http://www.listeninglistening.com/kaiser-rooftop-garden-soundwalk.html
Artist Bio:
Andrea Williams is an artist, composer, and educator currently based in Oakland, CA. She enjoys using site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Listening, memory, urban ecology, and group collaboration are recurrent themes. Her compositions, soundwalks, installations, and videos have been exhibited and performed both solo and with various artists at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently at the Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Joyce Theater Soho, Children's Creativity Museum, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is the Co-Director for the sound art non-profit, 23five, a Co-Founder of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
Come welcome the sun together, experience a meditative sound bath with aromatherapy, and create sound poetry from listening exercises on the soundwalk taking place on the beautiful Kaiser Rooftop Garden. This 3-acre garden with a pond is located on the 3rd floor of the Kaiser Building near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Please meet on the ground level at the CVS at 344 Thomas L Berkley Way under the tree near the Webster St. side of the CVS. Please arrive 15 minutes before the 12:30pm start time. Your guide, sound artist Andrea Williams, will be holding a red balloon. Only 15 spots are available and spots may fill up quickly so please RSVP here:
http://www.listeninglistening.com/kaiser-rooftop-garden-soundwalk.html
Artist Bio:
Andrea Williams is an artist, composer, and educator currently based in Oakland, CA. She enjoys using site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Listening, memory, urban ecology, and group collaboration are recurrent themes. Her compositions, soundwalks, installations, and videos have been exhibited and performed both solo and with various artists at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently at the Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Joyce Theater Soho, Children's Creativity Museum, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is the Co-Director for the sound art non-profit, 23five, a Co-Founder of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
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http://www.listeninglistening.com/kaiser-rooftop-garden-soundwalk.html
Artist Bio:
Andrea Williams is an artist, composer, and educator currently based in Oakland, CA. She enjoys using site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal the unseen connections between people and their environment. Listening, memory, urban ecology, and group collaboration are recurrent themes. Her compositions, soundwalks, installations, and videos have been exhibited and performed both solo and with various artists at galleries and alternative spaces, most recently at the Whitney Museum, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Joyce Theater Soho, Children's Creativity Museum, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and the Mamori sound artist residency in the Amazon rainforest. Andrea is the Co-Director for the sound art non-profit, 23five, a Co-Founder of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, and has an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College.
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Kaiser Rooftop Garden
300 Lakeside Dr #206, Oakland, CA 94612
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