How You Shimmer: Sound Portal for Whale Bubbles
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An invitation to explore states of sonic reorientation through the vertiginous experience of a sound portal. A composition of sound, video and music in installation form for the Exhibition Polyphonic Landscapes at Zone2Source, Amsterdam, 6 October - 3 December 2023
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Bronze hand-held sculptures made from human children’s skull bone fragments, with ‘scrimshaw’ carvings of whales from underwater video.
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That unseen vibrance. These are dense vibrations, larger than our bodies, larger than our ear drums. They work through us. They present as oceanic. I have a sense of being inside the sound, submerged in another medium, molten, or perhaps growing wings. Of enormous pressure depth yet vibrance shimmer. To dive into the oceanic with our own airborne sounds, feet on the ground, ears underwater. What animal could hear like this?
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Can our conscious listening effect the world around us? This dreamscape pulls together a collection of moments in sounds and images of the “super bloom” of wild flowers in California, wind in Joshua Tree National Park, a visit to James Turrell’s Roden Crater, full rapids at Grand Falls on Navajo and Hopi land in Northern Arizona, the fragile crystal crunching of a lava field near Flagstaff, and the liminal spaces of the Pacific Ocean coast of the Monterey Bay.
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What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? From a Whale’s Back is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minke whales - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales.
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What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? From a Whale’s Back is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minke whales - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales. This video is of minke whales in Antarctica.
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What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? From a Whale’s Back is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minke whales - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales. This video is of humpback whales in Monterey Bay California.
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What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? From a Whale’s Back is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minke whales - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales. This video is of minke whales in Antarctica.
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What might it mean to be oceanic? To act in the world from a place of oceanic consciousness? From a Whale’s Back is an installation that explores the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales of different species - orcas, humpbacks and minke whales - from Antarctica to the northeastern Pacific. It uses video taken from tags used by scientists to monitor whales. This video is of humpback whales in Monterey Bay California.
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Leading students on explorations of cultural and environmental sites around the crater, and collaboratively working with faculty and students to create a final series of art presentations, including an immersive 3D dome projection and a sound installation.
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Melt Me Into The Ocean is a day-long event that uses sound to connect participants to this sense of place, commissioned by Madison Heying of Indexical.
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The evening sunset performance at Ocean View Park in Santa Cruz combined my soundscape from the Monterey Bay with my videos of a dreaming sea lion, ocean waves, and humpback whales, projected onto boulders in the park. At first the videos were very faint.
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This sound and video installation is part of a larger project – Melt Me Into The Ocean – exploring how we can deepen our relationship to the ocean environment through art, science and listening.
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A sound walk where oceanic voices – bowhead and beluga whales, bearded seals and narwhals – speak directly into our ears from arctic waters.
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‘Eyrie’ (2015) includes 5 large printed stills from the video installation Eagle.
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Floor to ceiling video wall projection, two-channel sound, 5 color still images, wall drawn text
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Mississippi Tornado (2012/14) combines a field recording of the sound of WWII warning sirens used to signal an approaching tornado in Memphis, with a wall drawing of the overlapping natural and political border made by the changing route of the river through the Mississippi Delta.
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Light Entering My Room (2015) fills a room with moving blue lights revealing shadows cast through trees in an old growth rainforest in the Pacific Northwest US.
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