Pleasure Garden: a listening garden
‘…a mystical and intensely personal experience...’ (Broadsheet)
Brokering a relationship between the key creative musicians – the Australian Genevieve Lacey and the Norwegian Jan Bang – resulted in a collaboration called Pleasure Garden – a kinetic sound installation for outdoor and indoor spaces that fuses music, field recordings and technology to create a contemplative environmental experience.
Visitors of all ages and backgrounds are enveloped by gentle sounds as they sit in, listen to or wander through the natural architecture of a garden, forest or outdoor space.
Since 2015, there have been 10 presentations of Pleasure Garden in five countries, where it has been experienced by over 50,000 people: Garden of Museo di Storia Naturale “Faraggiana Ferrandi”, presented by Nu Festival - Art & Community, Novara (Italy); Puijo Forest (Kuopio, Finland), presented as Soiva metsä (ringing forest) by BarokkiKuopio Early Music Festival; Künstlerhaus Garden, presented by Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland); Harewood House Walled Garden, presented by Harewood House Trust (UK); Salters Yard Garden, presented by Culture Mile & Barbican (UK); Charterhouse Norfolk Garden, presented by Barbican as part of Sound Unbound Festival (UK); Felbrigg Hall Gardens & Estate, presented by Norfolk & Norwich Festival and in association with the National Trust (UK); Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, presented by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Aus); Vaucluse House Garden, presented by Sydney Living Museums & Sydney Festival (Aus), and Lambley Gardens, presented by Lambley Gardens (Aus).
Touring for Pleasure Garden is supported by The Australia Council for the Arts / Creative Australia.