Listening room
An electro-acoustic work built from field recordings gathered in southwestern Utah and Zion National Park in November 2025, combined with live performance interventions in the space via stones and glass bottles.
An extension of a body of work with “hybrid” installations and actions: creating situations in which sound is placed alongside the existing conditions of a site. This practice is grounded in close listening and an awareness of the operation of sound in daily life, within environments shaped by both human activity and natural processes.
Listening room unfolds slowly and deliberately, inviting listeners to stay with the intensity that field recordings evoke, the feeling that every incidental detail—a passing airplane, a bird call, a distant human presence—becomes charged once framed by the act of recording.
The emphasis is not on immediacy or spectacle, but on duration, accumulation, and the changing conditions of listening itself. n the particular intensity that field recordings can evoke: the feeling that every incidental detail—a passing airplane, a bird call, a distant human presence—becomes charged once framed by the act of recording.
Listening room is accompanied by an optional audiovisual installation, Sky frames, arranging a related indoor or outdoor viewing and listening location, through which participants observe sonic copies of themselves through visible rectangular windows to their surroundings.
Details
Listening room, 60:00
Indoor, multichannel spatial sound with live-performed sounding intervention
Field recordings taken in Utah, summer and fall 2025, mixed for any available multichannel sound system or via speaker setup provided by the artist.
Sky frames, looping or for any length of time up to 12 hours, as fits a public event
Installation, outdoor or indoor, rural or urban
Picture frames prepared with red LED strips, powered via portable rechargeable batteries
Small speakers, each cycling through field recordings taken at the site of the installation, masked by filtered noise and sine tones corresponding to strong pitches in the recording and resonant frequencies of the surrounding environment.
