Sonambient Pavilion

As an homage of two sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia, Experimental Sound Studio presents an installation using the 50-channel sound system of the Pritzker Pavilion.

Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), in collaboration with Olivia Block, <i>Sonambient Pavilion</i>
Composed by Chicago artist Olivia Block and commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio, Sonambient Pavilion is a multi-channel sound installation that envelopes listeners at the pasture-like lawn of Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion.
Sounds from two “sonambient” sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia in the Aon Plaza on Randolph Street are amplified and electronically manipulated, then spatialized into the array of 50 loudspeakers above the Pavilion’s lawn, creating a shifting, shimmering sonic architecture superimposed on the Pavilion’s visual architecture.

The installation results in a “canopy of sound” derived from the sonambients, and composed as a fluid sonic architecture superimposed onto the Pritzker Pavilion site.

Through the use of transmission and computer technology, the delicate experiential nature of sound in architecture as envisioned by Bertoia gains new dimensions, transposed into an enveloping sonic experience – a built environment of sound.


until November 21, 2015
Experimental Sound Studio (ESS), in collaboration with artist Olivia Block
Sonambient Pavilion
The Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
201 E Randolph St, Chicago

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