Requiem: Lincoln Park Conservatory

A four channel sound installation in the Fern Room of Chicago's Lincoln Park Conservatory. In the verdant,
fecund Fern Room a Requiem will sound for those who still lie buried below the Conservatory and the Park.

Percussion-originated sounds are matched with wordless singing modeled on the Requiem (Mass for the Dead). The
sound piece is intended to echo traditional wording of an Anglican burial service: In the midst of life we are in death.

In 1865 Chicago's Lincoln Park was named, as a memorial to the President (slain April 14, 1865). The park was on
the site of the City Cemetery. To make room for Lincoln Park, as well as for health reasons, and the expanding city
itself, efforts were begun to remove the interned bodies. In 1871 the Great Chicago Fire burned cemetery burial
records, along with wood and stone grave markers.

Endlessly looped audio; 20 min.

Composed and Arranged by Annie Feldmeier Adams and Steven Hess

Created in collaboration with:
Steven Hess
Brendan Burke
Joseph Clayton Mills

Florasonic presented by Experimental Sound Studio and The Chicago Park District.

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