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Join artist Lani Trock of Soft Future for a guided immersive listening experience and participatory listening experience in response to her installation in Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination. Set within the landscape of Pasadena's Arlington Garden, this immersive program invites participants into a shared space of deep listening, gentle movement, and collective presence.

Through sound, voice, and embodied attention, participants will be guided through practices of slowing down, grounding, and attuning to both body and environment. Developed in collaboration with artists and musicians David Moses, Sheila Govindarajan, and Kiernan, the program creates opportunities for reflection, connection, and renewal through collective experience.

As a restorative offering, Field of Listening welcomes community members seeking space for care, contemplation, and reconnection in the wake of recent wildfires. Presented in partnership with Arlington Garden and Living Earth, the program extends the exhibition’s exploration of craft, intuition, and practices of healing.

The event is free to attend. RSVP required. Space is limited.

Doors open at 6:00 PM, the event runs from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring a blanket, cushion, or portable chair for seating on the lawn. Comfortable clothing is recommended.

IMPORTANT: Please click here to review parking, access, and other important information prior to visiting Arlington Garden.

About the Artists

Lani Trock is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers on harmonious world-building. To awaken the collective imagination and actualize a new operating system for society, she works with organic sculptural materials to cultivate gentle environments, and invites visitors to contemplate from their unique voice and vision, how they would imagine the world at peace. Engaging with art as a spiritual practice, honoring the studio & gallery as spaces of devotion, she builds ephemeral altars and invites collaborators to activate them in joyful co-creation. In communion with her site-specific, immersive installations, she facilitates group expressions of improvisational sound and movement techniques. Through these public programs, she invites participants to co-create the new earth – an alternative cultural paradigm that seeks to shift away from a capitalist logic of scarcity, commodification, and competition, towards equitable abundance, collaboration, and mutual benefit. This way of seeing is grounded in the understanding that everything is alive, has spirit, and that together, we all coexist as an interconnected, symbiotic organism. Bridging physical and virtual modalities, her participatory artworks integrate the biomimetic intelligence of natural ecosystems with the collectivist principles underlying open-source software to imagine a symbiotic society, rooted in an ethos of care.

Trock was born and raised in Hawai’i and has a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz. She has shown work at OCHI, Praz-Delavallade, Jeffery Deitch with Nicodim, and the LA Municipal Art Gallery. She has been published in Autre Magazine, Murder Magazine, and Plant Magick from The Library of Esoterica, Vol 4., published by Taschen Books. In 2021, she had a solo exhibition at Hansell Gallery during her year-long residency at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles and participated in Kernel, a fellowship to explore the intersection of web3 & public goods. She is a longtime resident of Los Angeles.

David Moses is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and educator based in East Los Angeles. His music practice explores the intersection of experimentation and intuition, moving fluidly through open-source music software (Monome Norns), field recordings, live resampling, electroacoustic processing, and generative composition techniques. Shaped by Los Angeles’s vibrant experimental community—where jazz, ambient, and exploratory music freely overlap—David has become a frequent collaborator within the city’s improvised music scene.

He performs solo and in various ad-hoc ensembles across Los Angeles and alongside his wife, artist Lani Trock, co-leads a community-oriented ensemble project Soft Future

Sheila Govindarajan is a licensed Clinical Ayurvedic Practitioner, Doula, Aromatherapist, and sound artist with over 15 years of experience treating complex health conditions through Ayurvedic medicine, somatic therapy, and botanical healing. She founded Rasa Veda to offer powerful, intentional treatments and therapeutically crafted products that bridge ancient wisdom with modern wellness.

Kiernan is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kiernan is a classically-trained cellist, and has spent much of the last decade working and writing for other musicians. Her own work mixes the intimacy of folk music with the warmth of ambient music, and is both personal and melancholic.

Partnering Organizations

Arlington Garden is a three-acre garden on Caltrans-owned land. It is leased to the City of Pasadena and entrusted by the city to Arlington Garden in Pasadena, an independent non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. This garden is not only friendly to people and pets but also serves as a refuge for Pasadena’s native fauna. Birds, bees and butterflies are particularly abundant and can be seen throughout the year.

Arlington Garden was developed in collaboration between Arlington Garden in Pasadena, City of Pasadena, Pasadena Department of Public Works, and Pasadena Water & Power, with help from Pasadena Beautiful Foundation and the Mediterranean Garden Society. Continued support comes from garden clubs, local businesses, nurseries, neighbors and friends.

Parking, Accessibility, and General Information

Where: Located in a residential neighborhood, Arlington Garden is Pasadena’s only free public habitat garden and 2.5 acre host to climate-appropriate plants, trees, fungi, root systems, animals, birds, bees, bugs, and people. The garden endeavors to engage, educate and demonstrate how a climate-appropriate garden can be beautiful and practical to maintain while incorporating water conservation and sustainability goals–and its vision is a transformed urban landscape where healthy gardens connect people and combat climate change. The garden was founded over 20 years ago, in 2005, as a unique collaboration between local neighbors with support from the City of Pasadena and Pasadena Department of Water and Power, on land leased from CalTrans and entrusted to the non-profit 501c3 organization Arlington Garden in Pasadena. The garden is open, free of charge to all, during daylight hours 365 days a year.

Getting There: The garden is located in a quiet residential neighborhood with limited street parking. We strongly encourage carpooling, public transit, rideshare, walking, and/or biking when possible. The garden is located a 15 minute walk from the Metro Fillmore Station! For those driving, please park on the section of Arlington Drive that is closest to the garden to minimize impact on our neighbors. Parking can also often be found on surrounding streets, including Wigmore Drive to the north and Madeline Drive to the south.

Access: Enter the Garden from the west (main) entrance with the decorative iron archway. Either enter from the 3 small steps on the left or the no-step entrance to the right. Sidewalk curb cuts are adjacent to the main entrance on the west side of the Garden on Arlington Drive (apartment driveway). Please note that some areas of the garden have uneven (loose) ground. Sturdy closed toe footwear is recommended. The formal Olive Allée, where the event is taking place, has a smoother ground surface and is generally accessible via a short walk or roll.

Event Area: A garden map is here. The event will meet in the area numbered 2 on the map.

Bathroom: The onsite bathroom is a standard, step up port-a-potty.

Image (from left): Lani Trock, David Moses, Sheila Govindarajan, and Kiernan. Courtesy of the artists.

Lead support for all Armory programs comes from the Perenchio Foundation. Exhibition public programs are supported, in part, by California Community Foundation.