Artist Bill Fontana is opening a public art sound installation in the landscaped passageway between the Financial Center Tower, 250 W. Main Street and its parking garage in Lexington, KY on July 29, 2011 at 4:30 p.m. The project will make audible the underground Town Branch River along with the toll of the bell in the Old County Courthouse.

Speakers have been installed along the passageway between the Lexington Financial Center, the city’s blue high-rise, and an adjacent parking garage. Microphones dip beneath to pick up the sounds of Town Branch rushing by. Most people would never know the Town Branch of Elkhorn Creek runs under downtown Lexington if they were not told. There has long been no visual or audible evidence of the rushing water that runs just below the high-rise buildings and busy streets of the city — until this week.

The project will be on permanent exhibit after Thursday afternoon.

For more information, here. With thanks to Rich Copley [rcopley@herald-leader.com]

For a description of the work: http://www.lexarts.org/participate/public-art/Bill%20Fontana/