earth dot sky

Filmmaker and Installation Artist Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first cemetery Artist-in-Residence, and the inaugural resident artist at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and America’s first garden cemetery. His 'earth.sky' installation features films and multimedia in an immersive, computer controlled, multi projector traveling exhibit now available for museums worldwide. earth.sky “By His Classmates and Friends” Interred Edward T. Damon April 19, 1835 - November 30, 1859 Notes Edward T. Damon (1835-1859) was born in Wayland, MA, graduated from Harvard College in 1857, and began studying at what is now Harvard Medical School in 1858. He is thought to have contracted Smallpox while tending patients at the Rainsford Island Smallpox Hospital in Boston Harbor. He died on November 30, 1859, at his apartment on Appian Way in Cambridge. Voices Richard Fomo Brian Galford Daniel Jacobs Roberto Mighty Tim Ouillette Michael Yip Special Thanks Pauline DiCesare Music Claude Debussy La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), 1 -De laube a midi sur la mer Performed by US Air Force Band Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 - III. Adagio Performed by Musopen String Quartet Traditional Our God, Our Help In Ages Past Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2 by Various. Sung in English by Maria Kasper; Kevin W. Davidson; Alex Clarke; Phil Schempf; Anna Roberts; Woolly Bee; Sarah Noll; Tricia G; Sarah Holtz; Liberty Stump; Glenn O'Brien Painting of Rainsford Island Hospital circa 1840 by Robert Salmon (UK) Woodcut “Corner of Winter, Washington, and Summer Streets, Boston” 1857 by Winslow Homer Additional Sound Effects Various Funding for this project A. J. & M. D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Arts Council Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of The National Trust for Historic Preservation Mass Humanities Watertown Cultural Council ©2015 Roberto Mighty earthdotsky.com - all rights reserved -