Noguchi Cycles is an all-day music installation created specifically for the Noguchi Museum Sculpture Garden. Five shakuhachi players (Japanese bamboo flute) perform at intervals in various locations throughout the space, surrounding the audience with melodic fragments inspired by the outdoor sculptures. More of a system than a traditional concert, the work is structured according to the different durations of each player’s breath rather than a synchronized score, resulting in a spatial music that unfolds unpredictably with no beginning, middle or end. The short phrases overlap and merge, finding a balance between the individual gesture and the environmental whole. The audience is free to come and go, experience the work from different vantage points, and to explore the shifting relations between sound and sculpture.