CANNON RIVER EDDIES
A sound, water, and light installation during the Cannon River Festival
Saturday, August 2, 2003, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Bridge Park, Northfield, Minn.

Artists:
Preston Wright
Philip Blackburn
With Steve Rosenthal

Please visit the art installations along the riverbank:

BLACK-EYED SUSAN CHAIN
Help create the world’s longest chain of local prairie flowers. No experience necessary. The chain will be released into the river around 1:00 pm and begin its journey to the sea.

TELE TUBIES
Hear afresh the ambient sounds of the environment filtered through tubes of different lengths.

CAMERA OBSCURA
Enter the private world of the Camera Obscura and see the living scene projected in color onto a ritual frame drum. Turn the lens, move and play the drum with your hands, spy on your friends. No more than three people inside at a time please.

SEWER ORGAN
Stand at the magic spot and hear the harmonics of storm sewer. Music has been especially composed to activate the overtones of the pipe.

THE ANGLERS’ REVENGE
11:30 am stage performance. Frustrated at the ones that got away? A special musical instrument made from fishing gear: a contrabass string telephone connected by wire and beaten by fishing rods.

WATER AND WIND
Zephyr’s Wind Harp and assorted waterfall-powered Janglers.

Preston Wright is a 2002 McKnight Composer Fellow through the American Composers Forum, 2003 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellow, ethnobotanist and web producer.
Philip Blackburn is a sound-sculptor, Director of Artist Services at the American Composers Forum, director of the innova Recordings label, and a 2003 Bush Artist Fellow.
Steve Rosenthal of Honolulu, Hawaii, is a current McKnight Visiting Composer through the American Composers Forum

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