It’s open!  The ground is singing up in Massachusetts.  Forever and ever.  Take a weekend and visit sometime…

{ by the way >  Apologies for recent neglect in posting.  It’s been a bit crazy all summer, and especially the last month.  Many rich things with wonderful people.  (Big hugs to all.) }

The most recent event in my little world was the opening of Jane Philbrick’s “The Expanded Field” — an industrial garden project at Mass MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, for short). The piece takes its name from this essay by Rosalind Krauss. Jane is a brilliant, lovely, fearless artist and human being, and it was a total pleasure to work with her on this project.  We collaborated to create an acoustic path that will invite visitors exiting the [planned] Anselm Kiefer exhibit hall to amble through the grasses and experience the new growth among the remnants of an industrial past.  With Jane’s vision in mind, I designed musical fragments which were then recorded by Roomful of Teeth in August and later shaped into a 12-channel piece that is now a permanent installation outside the museum.  { The Acoustic Path by Caroline Shaw & Jane Philbrick, featuring Roomful of Teeth }

Bob Bielecki engineered the burial of nine speakers, about an inch underground, and three embedded in a stone wall.  Below are a few photos from the installation process and from the opening last Saturday.  (I unfortunately was unable to attend but will be taking a quiet trip up there by myself very soon…)

Tags: acoustic path, bob bielecki, expanded field, jane philbrick, mass moca, north adams, roomful of teeth, rosalind krauss

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