Florasonic is a unique program that commissions composers and artists to make new site-specific music and audio art installations for the Fern Room of the Lincoln Park Conservatory, a turn-of-the-century greenhouse. Curated by ESS Executive Director Lou Mallozzi, florasonic presents each project for three to five months, visited by an estimated 500 to 1,000 people each day.
Current project
Recordings Made in Public Spaces
by Jeffrey M. Robinson
May 4 – July 6, 2008
Lincoln Park Conservatory Fern Room
2391 North Stockton Drive, Chicago
open daily 9AM-5PM
free admission
Opening reception: Sunday, May 4, 3PM-5PM
What you hear in the Fern Room is Recordings Made in Public Spaces, the latest version of an ongoing project by Jeffrey M. Robinson, a sound artist from Chicago. Jeffrey collaborates with musicians by recording their performances, playing the recordings in large public spaces, then re-recording and electronically transforming them to emphasize the unique acoustical character of each space. Through this process of music-making, dislocation, and transformation, Jeffrey creates an ephemeral architecture of sound superimposed into the Fern Room.
Jeffrey M. Robinson is a sound and visual artist from Chicago. He has collaborated on sound projects with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark, Azita, Mark Greenberg, Warren Lowman, Mark Shippy, Pat Samson, and David Yow, re-locating their performances to locations that include the MCA in Chicago, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Woodstock Opera House, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, and others. His sound and film installation East West was recently presented at the German Cultural Center in Chicago, and his visual work and other installations have been shown at various galleries and public spaces.
Recordings Made in Public Spaces was commissioned by Experimental Sound Studio for the florasonic sound installation series, curated by Lou Mallozzi for ESS. florasonic is supported exclusively by ESS.
Upcoming projects
Bob Snyder (Chicago): September 2008 - October 2008
Jenny Sheppard (Baltimore): November 2008 - February 2009
Past projects
- photo-sound-esis I, by Fred Lonberg-Holm, November 4, 2007 – April 6, 2008
- In the event that the stag horn fern becomes metallic and that each of its bifurcating leaves rings like a tuning fork, please turn off this recording, by Mark Booth, June 3 - September 30, 2007
- Chorus, by Shawn Decker, November 5, 2006 - April 30, 2007
- The Fifth Pythia of Deir el Qamar, by Michael Zerang and Mazen Kerbaj, July 16 September 30, 2006
- Pseudorniphones, by Bob Snyder (Chicago), November 13, 2005 - February 28, 2006
- Calls and Songs, by Hal Rammel (Chicago), June 18 - September 28, 2005
- Next 3 Miles, by Amnon Wolman (Brooklyn), November 2004 - January 2005 *
- Was It For This?, by Stephen Lapthisophon (Chicago), June 2004 - September 2004
- Transgenesis, by Olivia Block (Chicago), November 2003 - February 2004 *
- Bira, by Douglas R. Ewart (Minneapolis), July 6, 2003 - September 28, 2003
- Music for a Greenhouse, by Walter Faehndrich (Switzerland), November 7, 2002 - April 6, 2003 *
- Something More Than Night, by Terri Kapsalis, John Corbett, and Ellen Rothenberg (Chicago), June 29, 2002 - September 22, 2002 Fern Room, by Ernst Karel (Chicago), November 8, 2001 - January 6, 2002 ** presented in conjunction with The Outer Ear Festival of Sound
