Exhibition Soundscape
Sound Art & Design by JL Simonson
Description: “This piece of audio art is entirely constructed of ten OBW interviews and the modulation of each voice via natural processes. The piece is 100% composed of the narrators’ voices, processed by free, open source software and recycled material.
Special thank you to every contributor for their strength and trust, the Philadelphia Community Radio Telescope for sending each interview to the moon and back, and to the Library of Water for the reference material.”
-JL Simonson
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Sound Art & Design Credits
JL Simonson
Artist Statement
Every word and sound is inherently shaped by the contexts, events, and environments that generated its manifestation, and interacting with each vibration shifts our reality, incorporating into us and our environment through the very nature of our reality. Sound uniquely carries the teachings of the past and the imagination of the future into the present.
This sound collage is a field—a continuous pattern of vibrations, permeating the crevices of our hearts and environments on both physical and spiritual planes. This field is entirely created of ten voices and ten stories, transformed through natural processes. As we enter into the field, we resonate with each voice and word—body and spirit. The unique information carried in each vibration transforms all that it connects with and all futures thereafter, and we honor this natural process of creation through listening. In our presence together with each sound, we are transformed by each word—this is the natural process of the creation of the universe.
Natural patterns, cycles, and resonances, through their resilient omnipresence throughout time, are inherently encoded into all bodies and stories. We live together amid a field of intricate natural undulation of every magnitude, and these movements move blood and oxygen throughout our bodies, influencing every aspect of our bodies’ health. The patterns of our bodies can also be found in our ecosystems, melting winter into spring, moving oceans, birthing stars, and showing us sunlight and moonlight every morning and evening. Impressing natural cycles into each word amplifies each story’s existence within a universal context. As the meaning of each word is impressed upon us, we hear the echoes of their ancestors and their resilient lives. Extractive and oppressive forces relentlessly encourage us to separate our bodies and souls from the divine context of omnipresent undulation, which isolates us from our selves, from each other, from our pasts, and from our communities. In amplifying these important stories and their holographic resonance with natural forces, we honor the truth of interconnectivity and carry its potential with us into our futures together.
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Language, Duration
English, 12:46 min