Externalities: current (2025)
10-channel audio-video installation drawing from an archive of winter storm wind recordings captured from the masts of ships moored in the marinas of Hamilton Harbour (Ontario). Installed in an underground chamber beneath a former industrial site that was part of the first Canadian long-distance hydro-electric system in the late 1800’s.
As the audio composition progresses, the recordings move from their original form to increasingly “distilled” and “electric” variations - essentially being reduced to their fundamental acoustic building blocks. The visual component of the work features time-based imagery generated from data visualization processing of the full-frequency recordings.
Wind itself makes no sound. It is only made audible when it collides with bodies and other materialities. Extreme wind events are the result of pronounced differences between atmospheric systems such as high/low-pressure fronts and currents. Both climate science and many non-Western belief systems consider the increasing frequency and intensity of such events as an indicator that the larger interconnected web of Earth systems is dangerously out of balance.
Audio-video installation documentation. Audio recording is binaural. Headphones are highly recommended.
Full audio composition (8mins 28secs) including video component presented at entrance of installation. Audio recording is binaural - listening with headphones highly recommended.
Time-lapse video of installation process. No audio.