Sound Expeditions

Credits

Written and produced

City Water

Recorded

Indianapolis at the Sunken Garden and McOaut Place Apt 7D.

Mastering

Taylor Deupree at 12k Mastering

Cover photo

Jonathon Newby (Sunken Garden, Garfield Park)

Released

2018, Sound Expeditions, digital

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"Sunken Garden" is a commissioned work for Sound Expeditions released April 9, 2018. The piece consists of field recordings taken at the Sunken Garden in Garfield Park, Indianapolis, mixed with layers of slowly evolving choral tones and piano. The project was a collaboration with the Indiana State Museum and TEAM Records.

From Sound Expeditions:

Sound Expeditions is a soundtrack of Indianapolis. Comprising original musical commissions that address both the familiar and the unfamiliar aspects of the city, Sound Expeditions documents site-based sound art and composition. Each track is an aural (or auditory) monument to places in the city, complex histories, divergent memories, and hopeful futures.

Each track pairs an artist with a site for the creation of a new composition. The 30 tracks reflect real experiences of the city that capture the iconic as well as the mundane, the remembered, and the forgotten. The Sound Expeditions artists have conceptualized complex social, environmental, imaginative, cultural, and political ideas and spaces into evocative soundscapes and musical scores that range from joyful to melancholic.

The tracks move between nature to urban infrastructures, from erasures to exposures, from animals and insects to digital sound bites, and from unsolved mysteries to historical events. The soundtrack of the city is a musical journey that captures a range of compositional techniques with electronic sounds, archival extractions, and lyrical joys.

The messages, varying from cautionary warnings to hopeful visions for the future, bear the sonic fingerprints of each composer. Together they create a unified portrait of Indianapolis.