Music By, For, and About Plants, Insects, & Birds

A playlist compiled specially for Art Basel Miami Beach 2006 by David Weinstein, curator of the Art Sound Lounge there from 2005 through 2008, and now available here. For five days in December 2006, visitors to the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens were offered a pair of wireless headphones and allowed to roam freely through the flora and fauna to the accompanying soundtrack.



This episode includes works by Douglas Quin, Anthony Gonzalez, Martin Denny, Christian Marclay, Arto Lindsay, Vincent Youmans, Olivier Messiaen, Paul Panhuysen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jimi Hendrix, Wendy Carlos, Bernard Herrmann, Terry Riley, Jutta Koether/Alan Licht/Tom Verlaine trio, The Kids of Widney High, Gioacchino Rossini, John Cage, DJ Olive, and Shelley Hirsch with Simon Hostettler.

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