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# A Healing Sound Walk Through LA’s Griffith Park
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/ellen-reid-sound-walk-griffith-cap-ucla/
- Published: 2021-02-17T20:30:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:51:20.000Z
- Description: The music, composed by Ellen Reid, is inspired by “the shapes of the paths” and “evokes the massive sky and the challenging terrain.”
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, California, CAP UCLA, Los Angeles, sound, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

Starting this Thursday, Angelenos can walk through Griffith Park to the sound of music. Artist [Ellen Reid](https://ellenreidmusic.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) composed [*SOUNDWALK*](https://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/soundwalk?gclid=CjwKCAiAmrOBBhA0EiwArn3mfPat9NIiaFnocwxKXBr7Mcfz531I1-SlChMb5aJDpZc69T8GoW3uohoCy9UQAvD%5FBwE&ref=hyperallergic.com)during the coronavirus pandemic, creating specific musical pieces for more than 20 miles of trails. All you have to do is download the free app and bring your headphones — a GPS tracker will know which site-specific compositions to play. Reid toldHyperallergicthat she hopes the experience "creates a sense of mental space and inspires listeners to find the joy and strength to keep going."

Reid has done previous iterations of this project, including at Manhattan's Central Park, but as Reid explained, "The magnificent scale of Griffith Park makes it unlike any other location." An alum of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Reid knows the grounds of the 4,300-acre green space well, and shedecided to focus her piece around the Griffith Observatory and Hollywood sign. The music, she says, is inspired by "the shapes of the paths" and "evokes the massive sky and the challenging terrain."

Commissioned by the Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) at UCLA, *SOUNDWALK* will also feature a specially made recording by the all-strings [Kronos Quartet](https://kronosquartet.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that responds to the twists and turns of the park.

**When:** Thursday, February 18, 2021–2023  
**Where:** Griffith Park, Los Angeles

*More info at* [*CAP UCLA*](https://cap.ucla.edu/calendar/details/soundwalk?ref=hyperallergic.com)