HARBOR PARK: A Spring Sound Garden (Full Album)

Experience a"3D" spatial audio version of composer JG Everest's site-specific spatial symphony, "Harbor Park: A Spring Sound Garden", composed here in Grand Marais in 2018 for Harbor Park.

A virtual audio accompaniment to Composer JG Everest's SPRING Sound Garden for Harbor Park, featuring original site-specific storytelling by Staci Lola Drouillard, site-specific poetry by Jeffrey Skemp and Tim Blighton, and site-specific oral histories by Grand Marais residents Gene Erickson (former owner of the Standard Gas station that sat on the Harbor Park site), Frankie Jarchow, former president of the Grand Marais Garden Club, and Gerry Grant, current volunteer member of the Garden Club . (***NOTE: Once you start playing one of the poems or stories, pause before moving to another part of the audio tour, so that new stories don't start playing and overlap.***) Part of the SPRING SOUND GARDEN live event May 29 & 30, 2020 in Harbor Park for Art Along The Lake. For more info visit www.jgeverest.com or waveletscreative.org

Listen to composer JG Everest's site-specific spatial symphony, the "Library Woods Sound Garden", in two movements, composed spatially for the Library Woods at the Madeline Island Public Library in May 2023, where it premiered over Memorial Day Weekend of that year. The first movement is entitled "LaPointed" (15 min) and the second movement is "M.Bells" (25 min). The Library Woods Sound Garden features soprano and baritone saxophones played by Free Range Orchestra member Matty Harris. Towards the end of the second movement, it also features the voices and piano playing of the Library's afterschool program students (and staff) from May 2023. Can you recognize any of the voices you hear? Can you hear them howl like wolves at the bus stop?

A 3-D "Spatial Audio" version of composer JG Everest's "Library Woods" spatial symphony. (BETA VERSION) Composer JG Everest's site-specific spatial symphony, the "Library Woods Sound Garden", is comprised of two movements, composed spatially for the Library Woods at the Madeline Island Public Library in May 2023, where it premiered live over Memorial Day Weekend of that year. This virtual version was commissioned in May 2025. The first movement is entitled "LaPointed" (15 min) and the second movement is "MI Bells" (25 min). Library Woods features soprano and baritone saxophones played by Free Range Orchestra member (and longtime Island visitor) Matty Harris.

Soundwalk for the Barringer Farm in Ellsworth, Wisconsin.

A Central Minnesota soundwalk reducing anthrophonic sounds and accentuating the natural soundscape.

A self-guided, interactive music + poetry audio tour, celebrating the fall season. Each sound is triggered by the listener's movements within the Sound Garden at Riverside Park. Experience composer/director JG Everest's Fall Sound Garden spatial sound score with original Fall poetry performed by Chavonn Shen, Annette Schiebout, Lisa Yankton, Jeffrey Skemp, and Sagirah Shahid as you move through the northwest corner area of historic Riverside Park, the oldest city park in the Minneapolis Park system. Also includes additional sonic layers by the Free Range Orchestra & Choir. Headphones recommended. Site-specific photography and dance performance details included with each sound "echo". Presented by wavelets creative and the Cedar Riverside People's Center with Springboard for the Arts, part of the "Because Your Health Matters" initiative. waveletscreative.org jgeverest.com This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.