Los Angeles, California

featuring Kronos Quartet in Griffith Park

presented by CAP UCLA

 
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Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a free, GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment of L.A.’s Griffith Park. Created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid, the experience is guided by the listener: the path you choose dictates the music you hear, and no two visits will be exactly the same. After installing the free app and downloading the Griffith Park SOUNDWALK, participants can explore the park, triggering musical cells that are carefully crafted to harmonize with the park’s landscape and attractions.  

Ellen Reid's newly-written, cinematic score was rendered remotely by a patchwork of artists from across the country, and features a world-premiere recording by Kronos Quartet created specifically for Griffith Park.

SOUNDWALK can be experienced while following social distancing guidelines and will be available free of charge to park visitors through 2023. 

 

Los Angeles, CA - GRIFFITH PARK

Ellen Reid, Composer and Sound Designer

Music performed by:
Kronos Quartet
SOUNDWALK Ensemble

presented by CAP UCLA

Kronos Quartet: 
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello

SOUNDWALK Ensemble:
Alex Sopp, flute
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Rachel Drehmann, horn
Riley Mulherkar, trumpet
Sidney Hopson, percussion
Kyle Poole, drums
Ashley Jackson, harp
Mathis Picard, piano
Ellen Reid, synthesizer 
Eliza Bagg, voice
Mona Tian, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Russell Hall, bass


Creative Team
Eclipse Projects - Producer
ECHOES.XYZ - App Design and Development
Playtime Studio, Los Angeles - Art
Daniel Neumann - Audio Engineer
Nadia Sirota - Remote Recording Producer 
Nikolás Ixyar McConnie-Saad - Production Coordinator for Kronos

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK was co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Mann Center for the Performing Arts in association with The Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Britt Festival Orchestra.

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is made possible in part by the support of Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural program about mental health.

Funds in support of CAP UCLA's Griffith Park presentation provided by Fariba Ghaffari, Kiki and David Gindler, and Marla Mayer and Chris Ahearn.

Kronos Quartet appears courtesy of Kronos Performing Arts Association
Janet Cowperthwaite, Executive Director
Mason Dille, Dana Dizon, Sarah Donahue, Reshena Liao, Kären Nagy


Ellen Reid Music (ASCAP) Worldwide rights administered by Soundrights Music (ASCAP), a division of Modern Works Music Publishing

All music ©2020-2021 Ellen Reid except as noted

Fear | Release
Composed by Ellen Reid
Performed by Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
Released on Sono Luminus
Commissioned by Justice and Helen Schlichting

George Harrison Tree Theme
by Bass Race

Theme (From "Rebel Without a Cause")
Composed by Leonard Rosenman
Performed by Hideaki Aomori

Land Acknowledgement
The team behind SOUNDWALK gratefully acknowledges that, as we gather in Griffith Park, we are on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva people. Native communities have remained present and have thrived here in Los Angeles in spite of centuries of settler colonial violence perpetrated against their lives and livelihoods. We recognize and respect the historical Indigenous inhabitants of this land, as well as Native communities across the Americas.