Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

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Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is an immersive audio experience tailor-made for the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, free to the public, and created with social distancing guidelines in mind.

After installing the free app and downloading the Saratoga Performing Arts Center SOUNDWALK, participants can explore Saratoga Spa State Park, featuring the Avenue of the Pines, the reflecting pool area, the Vale and Geyser Springs, and more. Movement around the park triggers Ellen Reid’s soundscape -- musical cells which she carefully crafted to harmonize with the park’s landscape and attractions. The experience is guided by the listener: the path the participant chooses dictates the music they hear, ensuring that no two visits will be exactly the same. The installation will remain accessible in the park until June 1, 2022.  

 

Saratoga Performing Arts Center

Ellen Reid, Composer and Sound Designer

Music performed by:
SOUNDWALK Ensemble

SOUNDWALK Ensemble:
Alex Sopp, flute
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Riley Mulherkar, trumpet
Rachel Drehmann, french horn
Sidney Hopson, percussion
Kyle Poole, drums
Ashley Jackson, harp
Mathis Picard, piano
Ellen Reid, synthesizer 
Eliza Bagg, voice
Mona Tian, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Russell Hall, bass

Creative Team
Eclipse Projects - Producer
THE OFFICE performing arts + film - Producing Consultant
ECHOES.XYZ - App Design and Development
Playtime Studio, Los Angeles - Art
Daniel Neumann - Audio Engineer
Nadia Sirota - Remote Recording Producer 


Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK was co-commissioned by Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the New York Philharmonic, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Mann Center for the Performing Arts in association with The Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Britt Festival Orchestra.

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is made possible in part by the support of Mindscapes, Wellcome’s international cultural program about mental health.

Additional generous support was provided by Dexter and Deborah Senft.

Ellen Reid Music (ASCAP) Worldwide rights administered by Soundrights Music (ASCAP), a division of Modern Works Music Publishing

All music ©2020 Ellen Reid except as noted

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (“Choral”)
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Land Acknowledgement
The team behind SOUNDWALK gratefully acknowledges that, as we gather in Spa State Park, we are on the lands of the the Mohican, the Mohawk and the Abenaki. Native communities have remained present and have thrived here in Saratoga in spite of centuries of settler colonial violence perpetrated against their lives and livelihoods. We recognize and respect the historical Indigenous inhabitants of this land, as well as Native communities across the Americas.