Debra Simon
Executive Director
WFC Arts & Events Program
Anne Pasternak
Executive Director
Creative Time |
On October 17, 2002, the World Financial Center Arts & Events Program and Creative Time launch Sonic Garden, a rare sonic exhibition commissioned for the Winter Garden, a stunning waterfront landmark located in The World Financial Center in Battery Park City. Broadcast daily through November 30th, Sonic Garden will feature new audio commissions by visionary artists Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Marina Rosenfeld, and Ben Rubin. Using the Winter Garden's state of the art sound system, each artist is creating a site-specific work that can be experienced through speakers in the atrium's palm trees, stairs, and surrounding air vents. From Marina Rosenfeld's recordings of stones skipping across bodies of water and David Byrne's jokes of famed Catskill comedians to Laurie Anderson's string ensemble and Ben Rubin's sound interpretation of the New York Mercantile Exchange, each project is designed to delight and encourage reflection while creating a sensory experience which heightens the audience's sense of the Winter Garden's voluminous architecture and surroundings. While the projects are varied, each celebrates the renewal of Lower Manhattan, the reopening of the Winter Garden, and the return of thousands of workers to the area.
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Laurie Anderson
