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gNa+Design is a comprehensive, research-based design practice embracing public art, residential, commercial and retail construction. Focused on the role of design and construction in enhancing meaning in our lives, we believe that sensitivity and innovation are our most important assets. Fully engaged with issues of contemporary life, we listen carefully to our clients, and bring value to their projects through an inquisitive and synthetic approach to program, site and construction that re-imagines possibilities in service to client needs and aspirations.

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9 Feb 13

Morning Song/Evening Song

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Morning Song/Evening Song gathers  288 Springfield residents in a gesture of rejuvenation, creating a cacophony of bird-like song to celebrate the dawn at a brownfield site scheduled to become an urban park, and to celebrate the night at the recently renovated Park Central Square in the center of downtown, two sites half a mile apart in Center City.

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Morning Song/Evening Song comprises two separate events, each event a gathering of 144 Springfield, MO, residents of all ages, each person or child in possession of an Audubon Bird Call, a simple birch wood and metal instrument operated by twisting a zinc plug inside a turned wood dowel. The first gathering will occur in the morning at dawn on a brown-field site in the Springfield Center City that is the proposed location of West Meadows Park, still several years away. The second gathering will occur at dusk in Park Central Square in the heart of downtown Springfield several blocks away, as an event during that month’s First Friday Art Walk. In each instance the participants will arrange themselves in a loose grid with everyone standing about 6 feet apart in each direction, over an area approximately 576 square yards (about a third of a football field). Once in place, the participants will begin making bird calls in sequence, with each participant calling over a very carefully determined duration of time. The work will begin silence, broken at first by one individual song, increasing as a scattered music of call and response with the sound growing over the course of about 15 minutes into a crescendo of bird calls before fading into a single voice with a return to silence. The morning event will coincide with the rising of the sun, and the potential of framing the dawn with the Grant Ave. overpass as a backdrop. The evening event will coincide with sunset, with the light hopefully catching the tops of the taller buildings on the square as the Square itself fades into shadow. The bird-song component of each event will last 30 minutes.

A videographer recorded each event. Participants kept their bird calls. The installation occured April 4 & 5, 2014. 

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