Sound the Mound (2018) •

Kalun Leung - performer

Site-Specific Improvisation (2018)

Produced by Carlos Patrao, full post here.

Photos by Andrew Shea.

Freshkills Park Staten Island, NY, USA

Tech-driven acoustic ecology project using on-site data from Arable Labs. Freshkills was once the world's largest landfill and is being transformed into a public park three times the size of Central Park.

One With The Space: A Trombone Conversation

Kalun Leung is a trombone player based in New York City. This interview was recorded during a visit to Freshkills Park in Staten Island organized by the sound artist John Roach, the designer Andrew Sh

https://soundcloud.com/zepelimradio/one-with-the-space-a-trombone-conversation

Part of the Parsons Course “Sound the Mound”

http://www.spring2018.soundthemound.com/

In this course, students will address complex issues of climate, sanitation, consumer behavior, landfill reclamation, public parks, cellular technology, public art, sonification and more. We will work with three partners: Freshkills Park, a reclaimed landfill in Staten Island that will be almost three times the size of Central Park (2200 acres); Arable Labs, a remote monitoring technology developed for crop management that uses sensors and cellular data to measure and communicate rainfall, crop water demand, water stress, microclimate, and canopy biomass; and Gaynor McCown Expeditionary High School. Students in this course will build upon a prototype called “Botanical Transmissions” that emerged from a 2016 Transdisciplinary Studio, which translates data into music-by-and-for-plants using a genetic algorithm that responds to the health of the plants at the park, and will develop additional concepts that take inspiration from this prototype.