FOREST TIME

Forest Time Water @ the Northwest Museum of Art, 2024.

Forest Time Fire, Unabridged version, recorded at Sagehen Field Station, January, 2019. 20 minutes.

76 Cascades is a collaborative composition created at Jack Straw Cultural Center during a multi-generational workshop on data sonification. We built this composition in under 3 hours. More information about the workshop and Jack Straw can be found here.

FOREST TIME AIR

In progress: Feedback and Resonance in society, sound and nature exhibit both complimentary and contradictory traits. For example, positive feedback in a social setting is usually considered constructive, while positive feedback in an ecosystem, for example when a feedback loop alters the natural balance within a system, like how our warming climate is raising ocean water temperatures that accelerates sea ice melt which increases global temperatures and which in turn further heats up the oceans and the loop continues.

Positive feedback can accelerate destructive processes while negative feedback typically works to stabilize a system.

In music, feedback occurs when sound travels through a microphone, into and out of a speaker, back through the microphone, the speaker, again and etc. The results can be aurally offensive, or when used effectively, come across as otherworldly and supernatural. 

Resonance is described as the an object vibrates in response to an external vibration that matches its own natural frequency. These vibrations may result in feedback or they can produce a more intense vibration that expands and grows in complexity and amplitude.