"Nocturnal Sound Garden" is an outdoor soundscape composition created by Hugh Livingston for the featured Night Time Garden at the February 2006 Peninsula Home & Garden Fair at the San Mateo Expo Center. The installation was composed for the garden designed by Michael Galli, featuring tropical trees, orchids, Japanese coral maples and a mystical setting enhanced by lighting, fog and fountains created by copper sculptor Ken Griswa.

Custom Acrylic Outdoor Loudspeakers designed by Hugh Livingston, sound technology using SoundPad™ by Sonic Impact. Graphics: Poem by Bai Ju Yi: Two monks face, playing chess on mountain, Shadow on the board is dark and clear. Noone sees the bamboo's shadow, Sometimes the moving pieces sound. Play clip

Musical excerpts: Indian evening, moonrise, midnight Raga Gregorian chant for Vespers and Compline Piano Nocturnes by Chopin, Faure, Satie Other compositional elements by Hugh Livingston include maracas, seedpods, seashells, Asian string instruments, wind, water, birds and other 'found sounds'. Multi-channel custom spatialization algorithms by Strings & Machines. Related Page July 29 Open House in Oakland