“A work that pursues not only the strangeness of electronic instruments and acoustic instruments, but also creates an environment where you can coexist in a place where you can feel organically.”
“Life Returns is a monumental work that melds free improvisation and through composition to celebrate resilience and triumph in the face of despair."
“I don't think there's a more exciting contemporary composer than Tyondai Braxton… The electroacoustic action ebbs and flows, clashing with operatic drama one moment before crocheting a finely-textured silence with Braxton's ominous electronics… The eighty-seven players at work crafted a tremendous sonic adventure.”
Here’s a few highlights from the project, including the rehearsals over the past few weeks and the inspiring and massively popular performances February 11–12.
Get a preview of our immersive soundbath experience at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with composer Ricardo Romaneiro and Metropolis artists.
Biophony: SoundGarden is an immersive soundbath experience created by composer Ricardo Romaneiro for Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s conservatories.
In conversation with Ricardo about the genesis of Biophony: SoundGarden, composing for soundbaths, and what it's like to make music with plants.
Metropolis Ensemble’s immersive soundbath audiovisual experience by composer Ricardo Romaneiro features plant-generated soundscapes and live musicians in each conservatory ecosystem.
Get a hands-on interactive experience making music with plants. Fun for the entire family!
Get to know the ways sound and light therapy can stimulate changes in your brainwaves.
Explore how plants connected to PlantWave devices can translate their biorhythms into music.
Here’s what you will experience as you move through the installation at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Resilience has been central to many of the projects supported by Ms. Arsht, including Life Returns , which reflected on the resilience of individuals in the face of unprecedented adversity.
In 2021-2022, we collaborated with arts institutions, our musician community, and donors to expand impact and opportunity.
Telekinesis has a unique tonal quality characterised by thrilling juxtapositions between electronic and acoustic sounds. An astonishing tour de force that gives new meaning to the word epic. Four stars.
This album has proved seriously addictive; its richly detailed timbre is impossible to resist… endlessly entertaining and beautifully put together.
Metamorphosis is quite lyrical and beautiful, gathering steam and lusciousness until self-infatuated Narcissus disappears into the void.
Samora Pinderhughes’ Grief mixes gospel harmonies, simmering post-hip-hop instrumentals and wounded balladry, the music shudders with outrage and vision.
Phong Tran’s “The Computer Room” transports us back to the days of dial-up through the sounds of early synthesizers, which range from melancholic to ecstatic to warm, heartfelt nostalgia, even in the complete absence of acoustic sound.
The result is a glorious series of electronic soundscapes, each one building a virtual space of their own and further proving the universal emotional impact of melodic sequences and rhythmic structures.