Ten Thousand Birds/Follow Me Into the Field!

Experimental opera director Ashley Tata spent her PS21 residency creating Follow Me into the Field!, a site-specific environmental adaptation of Ten Thousand Birds, along our network of trails. The work’s instrumental sounds commingled with the calls of wildlife, the rustling of leaves, and the footfalls of musicians and spectators. Birdsong became music, instrumental sounds were transmuted into the sounds of nature, and the landscape into artistic space, blurring the lines between human creativity and natural phenomena. Residency in June 22–24 and July 30–August 8 2020.