I could not think of a better way to spend a sunny afternoon in the city. The tour is playful, magical, and fun. The narrator mixes wonderful ponderings, imaginative stories, and appropriate backround music and sounds to set the perfect mood for such an adventure. I definately felt like a kid again, and could not wait for what was around the next bend. I highly recommend bringing a friend or a date along to share the joy and laughter. Sometimes people give you wierd looks as you are standing in the middle of the path with a friend, both with headphones on, with huge grins on your faces as you listen and laugh in sinc with each other, but it's worth it. I recommend bringing an ipod if you can get one, as my cd skipped at times, and it is a little scary as it is only one track long and might start skipping halfway through. I hope that there will be a sequel to this tour in another section of the park, although will have no hesitation taking this tour over again soon.
San Francisco is full of eccentric individuals, but I've always wondered if they migrate to the Bar Area or if they're homegrown. Now I have one more data point to help me unravel this enigma and his name is Jeremy Dalmas. This Berkeley-born experimental artist, living next to Golden Gate Park, has been inspired by his surroundings to create an ambient audio adventure helping people explore the park from his perspective.
He ignores many of the standard landmarks and opts to focus your attention on some of the overlooked mysteries in the park. He backs his soft-spoken narration with Renaissance vocals, bells, keyboard chords and tribal drum samples that gradually shift the tone at each point of interest. His “if you consider…” audio tour takes about 80 minutes and guides you from the northeast corner of the park (Fulton & Stanyan) to the public handball courts behind the baseball fields on 7th Avenue.
Some highlights from the audio adventure include the feral cat colonies, Golden Age horseshoe pits, rocks from a Spanish monastery, Chicken Hill and the invisible tree. He also points out some of the edible plants you can use to make a Golden Gate Park salad. In between the sights, he infuses his audio tour with random poetic asides that recall the French artistic movements of Surrealism and Absurdism. He offers this experience for a mere $5 contribution to download the MP3 online: http://www.theabsurdists.com/ifyouconsider.html.
He has a genuine interest in sharing this audio tour with everyone and making Golden Gate Park into his own art installation piece. So if you want to experience the park from a unique and quirky perspective, check out this guided audio tour and lose yourself for a few hours in the Jeremy Dalmas wonderland.
San Francisco is full of eccentric individuals, but I've always wondered if they migrate to the Bar Area or if they're homegrown. Now I have one more data point to help me unravel this enigma and his name is Jeremy Dalmas. This Berkeley-born experimental artist, living next to Golden Gate Park, has been inspired by his surroundings to create an ambient audio adventure helping people explore the park from his perspective.
He ignores many of the standard landmarks and opts to focus your attention on some of the overlooked mysteries in the park. He backs his soft-spoken narration with Renaissance vocals, bells, keyboard chords and tribal drum samples that gradually shift the tone at each point of interest. His “if you consider…” audio tour takes about 80 minutes and guides you from the northeast corner of the park (Fulton & Stanyan) to the public handball courts behind the baseball fields on 7th Avenue.
Some highlights from the audio adventure include the feral cat colonies, Golden Age horseshoe pits, rocks from a Spanish monastery, Chicken Hill and the invisible tree. He also points out some of the edible plants you can use to make a Golden Gate Park salad. In between the sights, he infuses his audio tour with random poetic asides that recall the French artistic movements of Surrealism and Absurdism. He offers this experience for a mere $5 contribution to download the MP3 online: http://www.theabsurdists.com/ifyouconsider.html.
He has a genuine interest in sharing this audio tour with everyone and making Golden Gate Park into his own art installation piece. So if you want to experience the park from a unique and quirky perspective, check out this guided audio tour and lose yourself for a few hours in the Jeremy Dalmas wonderland.
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