Sounding the Garden

Farid al-Din ʾAttar's famous poem "Conference of the Birds" (Mantiq al-Tayr) recounts the spiritual quest through seven valleys. These valleys have been mapped onto the Aga Khan Garden at the University of Alberta's Botanic Garden. This augmented sonic reality

• Visit Sounding the Garden Click on Reflect, then navigate to Sounding the Garden. (This version works anywhere, on any device.)
• Sounding the Garden, using GPS and dynamic positional audio mixing, and incorporating additional tracks from the Aga Khan Music Initiative. (This version works on site only, using a GPS-enabled smartphone)
• Additional resources (poem, narration, map, miniatures) available here.