Sound Plant Advice, Guidance in Acoustical Gardening by Sound Artist Chris Kallmyer

On
Friday, April 11, Sound Artist Chris Kallmyer
will give guests at the Marina Del Rey Garden Center
the rare opportunity to explore the relationship between plant selections and sounds.
This drop-in concert will connect the musical qualities of different plant
species to sounds in nature, creating a wild symphonic soundscape for guests to
enjoy.  Kallmyer will be joined by the adventurous
new-music quartet Gnarwhallaby, who will be playing music to
accompany the artist’s custom-composed garden sounds. This experimental musical
performance will link bird-friendly native plants and trees, and white-noise
inducing grasses sold at the garden center, with the sounds they can create at
home, showcasing how one can transform their backyard and garden into a musical
instrument through plant selections.