An instrumentalist and a perfumer make up the unlikely duo of Cosmic Gardens, a French Brooklyn-based performance group founded in 2019. The pair uses sights, sounds, and smells to invigorate the senses of the audience in their multi-sensory performances. This June, you can experience a Cosmic Gardens performance where the pair will take listeners both outside of this world and deeper into it.
On Friday, June 23rd Cosmic Gardens will bring their immersive show to National Sawdust in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The experience will take listeners on a journey from the oceans to the cosmos through ear-tingling sounds, stunning visuals, and tantalizing smells.
The journey starts in the water as blue light bathes the stage, the smell of saltwater fills the air, and the music envelopes you like the waves of the ocean. The feeling shifts as Cosmic Gardens leads the audience next to “a lush, green rainforest with the smell of aromatics and earth, moved by organic rhythms and acoustic guitars.”
The journey ends with a trip to the cosmos induced by a visual mix of outer space footage, planets, and galaxies paired with the smell of ozone. The twinkling sound of stars completes the all-encompassing experience. Using the mystery of the cosmos and the steadiness of nature as inspirations, the duo creates a one-of-a-kind vibrant experience that is both soothing and enlightening, showing listeners that their greater questions may be either answered or alleviated through music.
In an attempt to tackle the problems looming within society and the world today, Cosmic Gardens creates music with the intent to transport listeners outside of the chaos and into a calm mindset where they can contemplate themes of identity, our connection to nature, returning to our roots, and the search for meaning during times of uncertainty and turmoil.
The duo dubs their music Organic Indietronica, a genre that artfully blends guitars, drums, and keys with the other-worldly sounds of electronic beats and synthesizers. Gathering inspiration from the iconic sounds of Daft Punk, Rone, and M83, Cosmic Gardens has cultivated a loyal fanbase and performed within the past two years at venues around New York City, including Lincoln Center and the Avant Gardner, as well as at venues in Paris. The band offers a sound that is truly a rollercoaster of emotions and sensations. Their 2020 EP Les Jardiniers de la Galaxie and more recent 2021 single “Rocket n’ Marionnettes (Tribute to Christophe)” can be found on Spotify and SoundCloud.
Tickets to their show at National Sawdust along with more information on the experience can be found on the National Sawdust website.
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