Sound Garden

the summer after 9/11, my husband wanted to take me to go see this place, cuz i’d recently moved up here and never been, we tried to go see, but they stopped us at the gates, being that it is on a military base/gov’t land….that really sucked; we’d ridden our bikes from capitol hill up to u-district along the burke-gilman….was very disappointed…we went to magnuson park to try to look at them place, but the trees were too big to see thru…i don’t know if they’ve reopened the place…would like to see them though…

It’s pretty much what you’d expect: some tall metal things that make sounds. I don’t know that I’d say it’s terribly impressive, but it’s worth visiting if you’re bored.

The garden itself is a series of wind vanes and organ pipes that play a music of sorts when the wind is blowing. The piece was designed by Doug Hollis, inspired the name of a band , and sits on the grounds of NOAA’s installation in Seattle.

That’s great except for the fact that it is only open from 9 am to 5 pm Monday thru Friday – which explains why I have never been there.