Audio

This audio experience is integral to the installation. For visitors attending an exhibit where sound is unavailable, the full piece can be accessed here, allowing the auditory and visual elements to come together as intended.

The audio component of Stations is a carefully composed soundscape that weaves together elements of the natural environment, the act of writing, and layered musical textures. It is structured to mirror the cycle of the day, the tension between presence and disappearance, and the balance between organic and artificial sound.

• The recording begins with the sound of sunrise.

• It then moves to the sound of electricity captured through a branch fallen onto power lines near the hydroelectric dam where the forest stood.

• The resonance of the line at dawn registers as E major.

• The underlaying recording then shifts into the sound of inscription itself, a process that takes up the core of the piece.

• The listener hears the deliberate, tactile act of the writing of one of the pieces directly onto a Common Cottonwood.

• The transition to sunset follows, marked by a return to the branch on the power line, now resonating in F minor.

• The final moments bring frogs calling at dusk.

• Layered throughout is a fragmented, semi-melodic arrangement of sound taken from cello scales in E major and F minor and electric guitar distortion, forming a collage of sound that builds but never quite resolves.