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, augmented with music and poetry, in order to deepen visitors' experiences of the Garden, to catalyze a richer, fuller, more harmonious understanding of Islamic spirituality, and to support religious pluralism.

• 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.