2019-2018 Events Archive
Santa Cruz Arts Council Develop Grant
7 January 2019
Awarded a Develop Grant from Santa Cruz Art Council to further develop the Melt Me Into The Ocean project.
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LASER talk @ CADRE New Media SJSU, San Jose
21 February 2019
“Melt Me Into The Ocean: learning from underwater sound”, lecture/performance as part of the LASER (Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous) series of talks.
How do we engage our sonic intelligence to expand our understanding and empathy towards remote environments such as the ocean? ‘Melt Me Into The Ocean’ is a series of artworks that use deep ocean recordings in site-specific installations and sound walks. The technological ability to retrieve sounds from ocean depths and listen to them in land-bound environments, raises questions as to how our sense of place might expand to integrate the submarine world into the presence of our imagination. Sound is considered as engaging a sense of relatedness that allows participants to imaginatively dive beneath the visual surface of the ocean, encouraging a sense of presence and connectedness to arise from these encounters.
Thursday, February 21st, 2019, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
San José State University Campus Village
CV2 Building/ Multipurpose Room
FREE and Open to the Public
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Castilla y Leon, Spain
26 January 2019 - 15 September 2019
‘Taking Soundings’ will be on show in The Notational Shift exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Castilla y Leon Spain
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Pacific Cultural Center: Sounds of the Ocean
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Whale Walks, Leonardo Convening, San Francisco
3 November 2018 - 4 November 2018
Whale walks along San Franciso Bay overlooking Golden Gate Bridge, as scholarship holder to the Leonardo Convening 50th Anniversary culminating event.
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Whale Walks @ Women’s Retreat
4 October 2018 - 7 October 2018
The Whale Walks from Melt Me Into The Ocean become part of a women’s trauma healing retreat on the coast at Cambria, California.
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Dolphinarium
7 September 2018
Performing harp at Kyma International Sound Symposium 2018, multi-media production Dolphinarium by Kristin Erickson and Mathew Galvin, UCSC.
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Reviews of ‘Melt Me Into The Ocean’
Read Good Times preview and Santa Cruz Sentinel review of Melt Me Into The Ocean.
“The sun had dipped above the horizon, but local artist Yolande Harris wouldn’t have seen it amidst the chilly July haze encircling the end of the Santa Cruz Wharf. She lowered her hydroscope into the water and watched as a shoal of anchovies swirled around it. She listened to and recorded the happenings of another world just beneath the surface, and amidst the white noise of hissing and snapping, she could hear sea lions bark and perhaps a dolphin click.
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‘Melt Me Into The Ocean’, Indexical, Santa Cruz
11 August 2018
Indexical has commissioned a new sunset sound event and whale sound walk along the Santa Cruz coast, curated by Madison Heying:
Nestled on the edge of the Monterey Bay between the Pacific Ocean and the redwoods, a strong sense of place emanates throughout Santa Cruz. Melt Me Into The Ocean (MMIO) is a day-long event that uses sound to connect participants to this sense of place.
MMIO features participatory works by local and nationally renowned artists that use sound, images, technology, and their bodies to activate public spaces including the West Jetty Walkway, Seabright Beach, and Ocean View Park, to reveal new facets of our relationships to local ecosystems and environments.
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‘Liminal River Bubbles Up’, Ebb & Flow Festival Santa Cruz
2 June 2018
Liminal River is a site-specific sound experience as part of the Ebb & Flow Festivals ‘March for the River’ along the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz, CA.
Bubbles up. Listen to the river’s voice in the liminal zone under Water Street Bridge. This is a place of shelter, altered states, passing through, brooding wild birds, and the meeting of fresh water with tidal ocean salt. Sounds recorded underwater in the river are played back under the bridge, sounds from the Monterey Bay seep in.
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‘Listening to the Ocean in the Desert’ in Leonardo Journal
16 April 2018
Leonardo Journal Vol 51-2 (April 2018) published Listening to the Ocean in the Desert in a section on the Balance Unbalance conferences,
“The author describes her artistic process and works exploring the recontextualization of recorded sounds into radically different environments, such as the ocean and the desert. Such unusual juxtapositions of place aim to stimulate awareness of technological mediation and the processes we rely on to build knowledge of environmental issues. The artworks do this by focusing on a physiological experience that combines the senses, thereby activating an experiential affect that may stimulate a sense of remote presence, empathy and curiosity to more fully understand distant and diverse ecologies that we cannot otherwise access.”
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‘Melt me into the Ocean’ at Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History
10 February 2018
Sounds recorded from the deep ocean canyon of Monterey Bay hang below video of humpback whales at the ocean surface. This new sound and video installation is part of a larger project exploring how we can deepen our relationship to the ocean environment through art, science and listening.
Sounds recorded by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute hydrophone – thanks to MBARI Senior Research Specialist John Ryan for providing access to the data.
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History special event Sensation: as evening of sensory science exploration
Saturday 10 Feb 2018, 7pm – 9pm
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