New York, New York

-world premiere-

featuring Musicians of the New York Philharmonic in Central Park

 
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Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is an immersive audio experience tailor-made for Lincoln Center & Central Park, free to the public, and created with social distancing guidelines in mind.

After installing the free app and downloading the Central Park SOUNDWALK, participants can explore the park's entire 853 acres, triggering musical cells that were carefully crafted to harmonize with the park's landscape and attractions. 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.

SOUNDWALK will be available in Lincoln Center and Central Park free of charge through 2026.

 

New York, NY - Lincoln Center & Central Park

Ellen Reid, Composer and Sound Designer

Music performed by:
Musicians of the Juilliard School
Young People's Chorus of New York City 
Poole and the Gang
SOUNDWALK Ensemble

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic: 
Alison Fierst, flute
Pavel Vinnitsky*, clarinet
Leelanee Sterrett, Chad Yarbrough*, horn
Christopher Martin, trumpet
Daniel Druckman, Kyle Zerna, percussion
Nancy Allen, harp
Kuan Cheng Lu, Anna Rabinova, Marié Rossano, violin
Leah Ferguson, Robert Rinehart, viola
Ru-Pei Yeh, cello

*denotes substitute

Poetry by Members of
the Young People's Chorus of New York City: 
Margaret Eisenberg
Adedayo Perkovich
Jainoir Richardson
Skye Tarshis

Poole and the Gang:
Kyle Poole, drums
Mathis Picard, piano
Russell Hall, bass
Riley Mulherkar, trumpet 

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

Creative Team
Eclipse Projects - Producer
THE OFFICE performing arts + film - Producing Consultant
ECHOES.XYZ - App Design and Development
Playtime Studio, Los Angeles - Art
Daniel Neumann - Audio Engineer
Nadia Sirota - Remote Recording Producer 
Dante Green - Assistant Sound Designer
Rebecca Jacobs - Curatorial Advisor

World Premiere by the New York Philharmonic
Jaap van Zweden, Music Director 
Central Park, New York City, September 2020

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.

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

All music ©2020 Ellen Reid except as noted

When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Jaap van Zweden, Music Director, as part of Project 19.

The Project 19 commission of Ellen Reid’s When the World As You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist was made possible with lead support provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust, and Dr. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Mr. Oscar L. Tang, and with generous support by Sheree A. and Gerald L. Friedman; The Hauser Foundation; The Gerald L. Lennard Foundation; Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa; Kimberly V. Strauss, The Strauss Foundation; the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation; and an anonymous donor. Project 19 was supported in part by a generous grant from the American Orchestras’ Futures Fund, a program of the League of American Orchestras made possible by funding from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.

So Much On My Soul was commissioned by Young People's Chorus of New York City, Francisco J. Núñez, Founder/Artistic Director, as part of Vocal Resolutions: Shaping Perceptions through Music

Come Sunday
Composer, Duke Ellington
Performed by Poole and the Gang

Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) 
Composer, Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by the New York Philharmonic

 

Land Acknowledgement 
The team behind SOUNDWALK gratefully acknowledges that, as we gather in Central Park, we are on the lands of the Lenape. Native communities have remained present and have thrived here in Mannahatta 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.