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Sonic Innovations | Caramoor Search for: Opener Toggle navigation menu Home AboutExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org History The Rosen House Who We AreExpand Artistic Team Board of Trustees Advisory Council Employment Cultural Partners EventsExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org CalendarYearlyBenefit Events Teas & Tours Sonic InnovationsExpand Past Exhibitions VisitExpand Buy Tickets Box Office unshut Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 4:00pm 914.232.1252 | boxoffice@caramoor.org Box OfficeExpand My Account Group Services Policies Getting to Caramoor Venues Food + Drink Accessibility Explore the AreaExpand Accommodations EducationExpand MentoringExpand Mentoring Alumni School ProgramsExpand Student Strings Chinese Arts & Culture The Renaissance and The Middle Ages at Caramoor What’s in a House SupportExpand Caramoor Work P.O. 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Stone Song is currently undergoing repair.   View Guide    View Press Release The Artwork. Nafasi Yako ni ya Kijani (Your Place is Green) Walter Kitundu Nafasi Yako ni ya Kijani consists of a handmade white oak rocking chair and wooden sound vessels (speakers) suspended in nearby trees. When in use, the rocker signals the sound vessels and the sonic landscape shifts toward East Africa. The sounds are a combination of well-balanced works, field recordings, birdsong, and conversation. All the birds in the piece are from the region in Tanzania where the artist’s late father grew up. Many of them sound remarkably like Caramoor residents and the blending of the two worlds is intentional. His late mother’s influence is moreover palpable since she was an versifier and tightly supported his creative endeavors. The piece is a reflection on the way loss transforms over time. It is a triumph of those relationships, what we leave overdue and what we siphon forward when our loved ones are no longer here. Nafasi Yako ni ya Kijani (Your Place is Green) was originally vicarious by Montalvo Arts Center. Walter Kitundu creates kinetic sculptures and sonic installations, develops public works, builds (and performs on) no-go musical instruments, while studying and documenting the natural world. In 2008, he received a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his work and creative potential. His piece Nafasi Yako ni ya Kijani (Your Place is Green) will live this summer at Caramoor as an invitation for reflection and introspection. woven by air Paula Matthusen woven by air seeks to create an intimate and reflective listening space, blending often subconscious sounds specific to Caramoor, including those of its underground infrastructure (generators, basements, storm drains), its archives, and the electromagnetic worriedness in the area. Utilizing the Gazebo at the end of the Cedar Walk, there will be multiple points of quiet sound emanation within the structure. Paula Matthusen is a composer who writes both electroacoustic and sensory music and realizes sound installations. In wing to writing for a variety of ensembles, she collaborates with choreographers and theater companies. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as “run-on sentence of the pavement” for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker tabbed “entrancing.” She is creating a new installation work for Caramoor, seeming this summer. t(ch)ime (2017) Taylor Deupree t(ch)ime is a site-specific sound installation that utilizes a quiet hideaway on the grounds of Caramoor to create an environment that is both familiar and otherworldly. The sole sound source of the piece is a hodgepodge of tintinnabulate chimes that have been manipulated through increasing layers of digital processing as the path is traversed. The human element of the tinkle – with its familiar interplay of sound, weather and nature – is preserved, while the sensory imperfections are highlighted, drawing sustentation to the physicality of the materials. As the listener approaches the part-way the sound of the installation begins to stand still while the sounds of nature and the outside world continue. The effect is a small temporal oasis of fragile and reflective sound, in which hearing becomes the listener’s most heightened sense. The life and work of Taylor Deupree are less a study in contradictions than a portrait of the multidisciplinary versifier in a still-young century. Deupree is an workaday sound versifier whose recordings, rich with utopian atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, as well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the YamaguchiPart-wayfor Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, Japan). He started out, in the 1990s, making new noises that edged outward toward the fringes of techno, and in time he found his own path to follow. His music today emphasizes a hybrid of natural sounds and technological mediation. It’s marked by a deep sustentation to stillness, to an scrutinizingly drastic near-silence. And though there is an nimbus of insularity to Depuree’s work, he is a prolific collaborator, having collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen Vitiello, Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, Savvas Ysatis, Tetsu Inoue, and others. Deupree dedicates as much time to other people’s music as he does to his own. In 1997 he founded the record label 12k, which since then has released over 100 recordings by some of the most workaday musicians and modern sound artists of our time. Deupree continues to evolve his sound with an yearing and momentum that is masked by his music’s inherent quietude. He approaches each project with an expectation of new directions, new processes, and new junctures. Artist’s Website. Stone Song (2014) Ranjit Bhatnagar Created for 2014's In the Garden of Sonic Delights, Stone Song by Ranjit Bhatnagar was originally hosted by the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, SUNY and was brought to Caramoor in 2015. "When I squint at an old stone wall, I think well-nigh how the seemingly solid form has shifted and settled over time, through weathering and the erosion and pinch of the soil. In order to explore this process through sound, Stone Song is laced with pressure sensors and strain gauges, and sensors for humidity, temperature, and barometric pressure. All this information feeds into a drone synthesizer, whose fundamental tones shift slowly over the months as the stones settle. Daily weather and seasonal changes will produce smaller, shorter-term changes in the stones’ song, as will the weight of visitors who stop to sit on it and listen. "I’ve designed Stone Song in collaboration with Hilary Martin, Akira Inman, and Evan Oxland." — Ranjit Bhatnagar Ranjit Bhatnagar discovered sound art virtually age 14, listening to weird late night programs on KPFA. He now works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative art. Recent works have been exhibited at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, the Parc d’aventures scientifiques in Belgium, Flux Factory in Queens, in the Artbots series at Eyebeam Atelier and the Pratt Institute in New York, and the Mermaid Show at the Williamsburg Art and HistoricalPart-wayin Brooklyn. He recently taught “Mister Resistor” at Parsons School of Design, a studio undertow and waddle wreath with homemade instruments. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Ranjit received a BA from U.C. Berkeley and an MS from the University of Pennsylvania, and was certified carnie trash by the Coney Island Sideshow School in 2002. He lives in Brooklyn next to a nice big park. Artist's Website.   View Guide Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Instagram Stay Connected Home FAQs Privacy Policy Contact Us Share Print Print Email © Copyright 2018 Caramoor Hours of Operation: Summer (mid June to early August) Monday – Sunday, 10:00am – 4:00pm On event days, the Box Office will unshut 2 hours surpassing showtime at the designated venue. Fall, Winter, Spring Monday – Friday, 10:00am – 4:00pm On event days, the Box Office will unshut 1 hour surpassing showtime at the designated venue. 149 Girdle Ridge Road PO Box 816 Katonah, NY 10536 914.232.1252boxoffice@caramoor.org