A LISTENING EXHIBITION
Headphones recommended. Start when you have a moment.
THE SOUND ENDS. THE QUESTION REMAINS.
The work leaves this question open. Listen to what human activity puts at risk—and consider our responsibility to the living world.
SIX PASSAGES THROUGH AN ECOLOGICAL NARRATIVE
Follow the work in full, or return to a passage.Adapted from the artist’s Ecological Echoes, “Audioscape analysis”. These passages follow the composition; the original sounds may overlap their boundaries.
Material timings, treatments and meanings come from the accompanying glossary. Sounds can overlap the narrative passages.
FROM FIELDWORK TO COMPOSITION
I collected and photographed waste, recorded the places it entered, and used location data and object counts to make musical patterns. The surviving photographs, process captures and composition trace this transformation. Cans suspended in a tree then became an instrument played by wind and weather.
Waste is encountered within a living landscape.
Surviving process captures show GeoImgr, TwoTone and p5.js.
Discarded material becomes an unstable, sounding installation.
Selected evidence from the making of the work.
The collage is a visual interpretation of the composition. The selected collections document collecting waste, translating data, building the installation and recording in the field. Other visual references appear only in the evolving collage. Visual juxtapositions do not imply that every image documents the sound playing at that instant.
A SCORE OF OVERLAPPING MATERIALS
Move through the recording. Select a layer to see its source, treatment and meaning.
These are material timings from the project glossary. The recording plays as a finished mix; layers are not isolated stems.
Listening as a way to notice,
protect and reconnect.