Art Park

Wave Farm Art Park Installations

Wave Farm’s Art Park is home to thirteen points of interest, media art installations that reveal what is otherwise unheard or unseen. These stand alone artworks are also instrumentation for visiting artists and experimenters.

Visitor Information

In-person Art Park Tours: Our visitor season runs June through October. Visitors can schedule a tour Monday - Saturday by emailing info@wavefarm.org. Visitors are also welcome, without appointment during Wave Farm public events. Please subscribe to the Wave Farm monthly email newsletter to be informed about such events and visit wavefarm.org/visit for additional details.

Installation Audio Streams: Many of the Art Park installations include live audio streams which may be accessed remotely at wavefarm.org/listen or through the Wave Farm Radio App.


1. THE LISTENING APIARY, Hose New York and Deadass Beekeeping (2026)
2. POND STATION, Zach Poff (2015)
3. SOLAR RADIO, Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz (2022)
4. TALK TO ME - WAVE FARM, Jordan Seiler and Ed Bear (2025)
5. FRESHKILL, Max Goldfarb (2023)
6. TEST SITE OF ACOUSTIC COMMONS 1, Soundcamp (2019)
7. UNDERGROUND (CODES), Yvette Janine Jackson (2022)
8. HERE GOES RADIOTELESCOPE, Heidi Neilson and R. Dove (2020)
9. SPATIAL DEMO COMPOSITION, Daniel Neumann (2026)
10. BARRIER, Type A (2021)
11. WEATHER WARLOCK, Quintron (2016)
12. TRAFFIC SAXX (ON THE 1s), Quintron (2021)
13. EVERY RADIO STATION, Jeff Thompson (2017)

1. The Listening Apiary, Hose New York and Deadass Beekeeping (2026)

The Listening Apiary is a living ecological installation produced by HOSE New York and stewarded by Deadass Beekeeping. Honeybee colonies occupy the landscape, pollinating and generating subtle signals of seasonal and ecological change. Wingbeats, waggle dances, and vibrations are amplified for deeper listening. The colony’s internal communication functions as a living sensorium, shifting with seasonality, bending to forage availability, and pulsing with the hive’s evolving dynamics. These signals are broadcast via streaming and radio transmissions, carrying the hive’s presence beyond its immediate environment. The work continues as a seasonal radio program Hive Theory. Broadcasted on WGXC 90.7-FM, Hive Theory draws from these signals to consider how patterns within the hive reflect and relate to broader social systems. Through observation, stewardship, and public gatherings, The Listening Apiary invites consideration of bees as collaborators in sustaining the environments we share. Read More


2. Pond Station, Zach Poff (2015)

Pond Station transmits the hidden activity within a Wave Farm pond from dawn until sundown. As the sun warms the water each day, hydrophones (underwater microphones) reveal a slow crescendo of sound: aquatic insects “sing” to mark their territory while gas bubbles rise from the pond bottom, punctuated by unidentifiable grunts and squeaks. This poly-rhythmic chorus mixes with traces of bird-song and passing cars that filter down from above. Rain on the pond surface creates a dense cloud of high-frequency detail, like the coals in a cooling campfire. Read More | Listen Live

3. Solar Radio, Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz (September, 2022)

Solar Radio is an outdoor sound installation featuring a small artificial intelligence mounted to a short radio tower which wakes with the sun and sleeps when the light grows dim. It monitors the seasons and the amount of energy available to it through its solar cells, generating an evolving composition in response to environmental conditions. Listeners may access Solar Radio at wavefarm.org/listen and will also encounter it woven into Wave Farm’s terrestrial radio transmission, WGXC 90.7-FM. Read More | Listen Live

4. Talk To Me - Wave Farm, Jordan Seiler and Ed Bear (2025)

photograph of a NYC phone booth in a forest. this installation at Wave Farm is called Talk To Me Wave Farm.=

Talk To Me - Wave Farm (2025-Ongoing) is an experiment in serendipitous social interaction, mutual aid, community building, and the power of strangers to alter the ground on which we stand. Built on the Talk To Me micro telephone network, each conversation is an opportunity for two strangers to touch each others lives, however briefly. When activated, the pond-facing phone will call out to every person in the Talk To Me - Wave Farm community, all at once. You will speak with the first person to answer the call. Read More



5. Freshkill, Max Goldfarb (2023)

Freshkill is an architectural sculpture and serial transmission artwork. The installation presents the story of a mobile object, its history and potentiality. Recently built from the dismantled materials of a former emergency vehicle (M49), the unfolded form now serves as a field station constructed from the bones and artifacts of the truck. Freshkill is a new and culminating phase of the Mobile 49’s multi-decade trajectory, a significant reimagining and reconstruction. Read More



6. Test Site of Acoustic Commons 1, Soundcamp (2019)

TSAC are listening points linked to an online network of open microphones, that send live feeds to a server at Locus Sonus in Aix-Marseille where they become publicly accessible on a real-time soundmap. TSAC 1 is a stream box on the edge of woodland at Wave Farm. By placing such sites in the public domain, TSAC 1 makes local sounds, such as stridulations of insects, wind in different kinds of foliage, birds, planes, passers-by, or flows of traffic on Route 23, available to listeners for whatever purposes. Read More | Listen Live



7. Underground (Codes), Yvette Janine Jackson (2022)

Originally audible as one ascended into the Wave Farm pine forest, Yvette Janine Jackson's installation Underground (Codes), is newly accessible in 2026, nested in a stand of poplar and birch trees. The installation is composed of two radio operas, Destination Freedom (2017) and Underground (Codes) (2022). The latter was created specifically for this installation at Wave Farm and is a response, or companion, to Destination Freedom. Both works are amplified by steel projection cowls donated to Wave Farm by artist Charles Lindsay from his Code Humpback installations. Writes Jackson, " The Earth-planet is the archivist of our past and future (selves) While we fight for truth(s) with soil underfoot She transmits atemporal memories to the heavens" Destination Freedom is part of a series of radio operas themed around the Middle Passage stage of the transatlantic slave trade. The journey begins in the hull of a cargo ship transporting Africans to the Americas; time collapses and expands as the vessel morphs into a spacecraft on an elusive search for freedom. Read More



8. Here GOES Radiotelescope, Heidi Neilson and R. Dove (2020)

Here GOES Radiotelescope is an artist-run DIY ground station receiving GOES-16's faint, data-dense transmission. Visitors to the sculptural station sit within it and look through the “telescope” and see images of the Earth as they are being received from the satellite. A generative audio stream interprets the interaction of the sun's energies with Earth's magnetosphere. Remote visitors may access visual elements of the project at heregoesradio.com. Read More | Listen Live



9. SPATIAL DEMO COMPOSITION, Daniel Neumann (2026)



10. Barrier, Type A (2021)

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Jersey Barrier quickly became the ad hoc solution for low cost "hardening" of designated urban sites from attack. This simple form insinuated itself into the environment without grace or apology, affecting the ways in which the population was permitted to circulate. In contrast, Type A realized the Jersey Barrier’s potential for grace while maintaining its authority to dictate behavior. At Wave Farm, Barrier takes the shape of an audio waveform of S.O.S. Read More



11. Weather Warlock, Quintron (2016)

The Weather Warlock (Upstate edition) is one in a series of custom-built weather-controlled analog synthesizers. Outdoor sensors detect changes in sunlight, wind, precipitation, and temperature, with output becoming particularly dynamic during periods of rapid meteorological change, such as sunrise and sunset. At Wave Farm, Weather Warlock serves as a stand-alone installation and generative composition, an online stream, as well as an interactive instrument available to visiting artists and radio programmers. Read More | Listen Live



12. Traffic Saxx (ON THE 1s), Quintron (2021)

With Traffic Saxx (ON THE 1s), Quintron continues to explore "audio mirrors" of the external world, in real-time. The project takes sounds that many consider invasive or annoying and whips them into soothing, surf-like compliance. Traffic Saxx transforms the white noise of passing tire traffic on NY 23 into a signal that can be mutated and manipulated by WGXC DJs in Acra. Read More | Listen Live



13. Every Radio Station, Jeff Thompson (2017)

Every Radio Station is a sculptural sound installation composed of 95 hand-made radios, one for every station in the FM band. Each radio is equipped with a speaker, letting viewers experience the entire spectrum at once, walk along it, or come in close to hear an individual station. For each geographical location the piece is installed, a totally different sonic experience results, informed by the number, strength, and kind of stations broadcasting in that area. As the terrestrial radio spectrum increasingly gives way to streaming services, Every Radio Station will reflect these changes. Read More

Wave Farm Art Park Tour (2022)

A video tour of the twelve works installed throughout the Wave Farm grounds. Wave Farm Art Park property animation by Matt Rudinski. Wave Farm map watercolor by Melissa Weaver.

Installation portrait films above Directed by Patrick McCormack, made possible by SunCommon. Edited by Duane Peterson III, drone operated by Adam Deen.

Wave Farm is grateful to SunCommon for their partnership and support. SunCommon is proud to partner with Wave Farm to power the Wave Farm Study Center and WGXC 90.7-FM transmission tower with clean, renewable solar energy, ensuring that generations of transmission artists can sustainably research and create new works. SunCommon New York, founded in 2002, is the longest-tenured solar company in the region, and our work goes beyond simply installing solar panels. Along with helping thousands of families, businesses, and organizations go solar, we use our business as a force for good by advocating for progressive solar legislation, reducing our own environmental impact, and caring for our communities.