"The electronic musical composition draws on field recordings of local wildlife and environmental phenomena, sourced from archival materials along with new recordings made specifically for the installation. By transporting the sounds of the lake's ecosystem into an urban park setting, Eliasson foregrounds the fragile interdependence between human and more-than-human life, rendering audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing."
"The installation marks Eliasson's first work in the Intermountain West and serves as the culminating event of Wake the Great Salt Lake, a two-year public art initiative highlighting the lake's rapid decline. Organized through a partnership between the Salt Lake City Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Mayor's Office, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, the initiative has supported temporary works that respond to the lake's urgent crisis."
Olafur Eliasson presents A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake, a large-scale installation displayed nightly in Salt Lake City's Memory Grove from March 26 through April 4. The work combines an original electronic musical composition with vivid light projections on an elevated sphere. The composition incorporates field recordings of local wildlife and environmental phenomena from archival materials and new recordings. By bringing the lake's ecosystem sounds into an urban park, the installation emphasizes the fragile relationship between human and non-human life, highlighting what faces extinction. This marks Eliasson's first Intermountain West project and concludes Wake the Great Salt Lake, a two-year public art initiative addressing the lake's ecological crisis through temporary works by local and Utah-connected artists.
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