Matsumoto Sound Garden

On Sunday, May 15 JSFC members enjoyed a curator-led tour of the Akinori Matsumoto Sound Garden, at the Flinn Gallery of the Greenwich library. You can still see the exhibit, which is  open to the public until June 15. The site-specific multi-dimensional sound and visual art installation features dozens of handmade ‘sound objects’ composed of bamboo, wood, paper and metal. They are motorized, and make various noises like bamboo wind chimes, shamisen strings, pan pipes, etc., and mostly hang from the ceiling like mobiles. Because each object runs on its own timer, the combination of sound, light, and shadow occurring at the same time is constantly changing. You can come again and again and always see something different. See a description and video HERE. In the above photo of the group at the tour, artist Akinori Matsumoto is in front in the blue print shirt. To the artist's right (the viewer's left) is Judith Setsuko Hata, Sogetsu Riji.  On the far right of the picture is Dianne Niklaus, JSFC member and co-curator of the exhibit, who led the tour.   (Francene Langford, another JSFC member, is the other co-curator of the exhibit.) In the far left is Mrs. Hata's ikebana arrangement made for the Matsumoto Sound Garden opening. Hanging from the ceiling is one of Mr. Matsumoto's creations.