Sage Martens- Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers

M. Sage and Lieven Martens’s Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers delivers a slyly moving act of environmental theater, braiding the mechanical drones of the best-in-class Snapper SPX riding mower and the lightweight and ergonomic Fiskars push reel mower with serene woodwinds and shimmering synths. This playfully earnest homage to suburban ritual finds unlikely transcendence in the tension between botanical reverence and our compulsive need to manicure nature itself.