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Welcome to the on-line home of the ITHACA SOUND MAZE!! The 2009 Maze is now CLOSED. Thanks for a great 2nd season and SEE YOU NEXT YEAR! Admission is $5 for anyone over 5! The ITHACA SOUND MAZE is Tompkins County's first corn maze and sound garden. This 'kinder and gentler' style corn maze features a number of interactive 'instruments' and sound installations hidden throughout. The instruments were built by musician Walter White, musician and brother, William White, and metal artist David Mazzarella. The instruments were created mostly out of found and recycled materials collected at Steep Hollow Farm and other farms and sites around the Tompkins County region. The ITHACA SOUND MAZE is located on the grounds of Steep Hollow Farm, three miles south of downtown Ithaca on Calkins Road just west of Route 13 (Elmira Road) in the Town of Ithaca, between Buttermilk Falls and Robert Treman State Park. The 2009 ITHACA SOUND MAZE was made possible in part by a generous grant from Community Arts Patrtnership of Tompkins County (thanks, Robin!) and generous donations of equipment and supplies from our local Home Depot (thanks, Marty and Lucas!) We'd also like to thank George Sheldrake from Earlybird Farms for planting the corn, Bob and Richard Mazourek from Mazourek Farms for the harrow teeth (they sound great), Heather and the crew at Eddydale Farm Stand for the cider and grapes, Greg Sheldrake with technical help and mallet making, Joe Lonski (The Destination) for construction help, and especially our good buddy, musician and educator, Frank Youngman, whose original sound gardens were the inspiration for our version in Ithaca. Thanks, Frank! (check out Frank's work in Park City, Utah and Cadillac, MI). Thanks for visiting the website! We hope to see you soon in person! Stop by and lend us your 'ear'! Your friends at the ITHACA SOUND MAZE!!
Instrument builder, Walter White, play-testing the stainless-steel pressure-washer 'gongs'. Updated 11/01/09 All content copyright © 2008 Ithaca Sound Maze LLC All rights reserved. |
