Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 N Baldwin Ave
Arcadia, CA 91007
Tickets to the Arboretum needed
$5-15
Join us at the Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden for Annea Lockwood’s Wild Energy (2014), created in collaboration with artist Bob Bielecki. This multi-channel sound installation immerses visitors in the often inaudible vibrations and energies of the natural world. By manipulating scientific recordings of phenomena—such as radio waves, solar flares, hydrothermal vents, and bat and whale echolocation—the artists bring these hidden forces into the human audio range.
New Zealand–born American composer Annea Lockwood brings vibrant energy, ceaseless curiosity, and a profound sense of openness to her music and performance works. Her lifelong fascination with the visceral effects of sound in our environments and on our bodies—the way sounds unfold, and their myriad “life spans”—serves as the focal point for works ranging from musical compositions to performance art to multimedia installations.
Bob Bielecki is a sound designer specializing in the creative use of technology in electronic arts. Since the mid-70s, he’s been a frequent collaborator with notable musicians such as John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Laurie Anderson, and La Monte Young. Bielecki has additional expertise as an audio engineer, exhibition designer, electrical engineer, software developer, and artist/collaborator and focuses on sound localization and imaging in his current work
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Wild Energy is presented as part of Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific, an exhibition, publication, and series of public programs co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University. Energy Fields is presented as part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. For more information, visit pst.art.
Wild Energy is powered by the sun and SOLARPUNKS. Additional in-kind support by Heardrum.
