2019
Sonic Atmospheres: World War II Batteries, Marin Headlands (Golden Gate National Park)
This experimental documentary sound art piece explores the interplay of the materiality of World War II bunkers, the materiality of atmosphere, and the phenomenology of interior states. It was inspired by Gernot Böhme’s The Aesthetics of Atmospheres. Böhme is a German philosopher who is concerned with multisensory perception and aesthetics, particularly as this applies to architecture and urban design. He writes about the “ontologically slippery” position of atmosphere. Böhme questions: What is atmosphere’s “being-ness” given its integrated nature, which is partly about “objective,” material states and partly about “subjective,” internal, phenomenological perceptions of space, time, and place?
2016
Eugenia
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I created a sound piece, in the style of “This American Life,” about my paternal grandmother, Eugenia Sobieralski: accordion player, world’s best pie baker, gardener, and female supremacist who grieved the loss of her second oldest son right after the Viet Nam conflict.
Sonic Textures of Mission Santa Cruz: Historical Echoes of Materials, Tools, Labor
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwIPqSglYbJ2alViSGl3d1MtWXc/view?usp=sharing
For my sound piece “Sonic Textures of Mission Santa Cruz: Historical Echoes of Materials, Tools, Labor,” I engaged in an exploration of the emerging field of archaeacoustics. My overall research interest is in creating immersive embodied experiences that facilitate awareness of, and connection to, subjective histories. The work of Shelley Trower woke me to the notion of sound and vibration as an embodied experience. Her work also led me to think about sound/vibration in relation to materiality, and that sparked my interest in the work of Daniel Miller. Miller inspired ideas about relationships among materiality and labor because these issues were certainly central to California mission life. Recollections of Gaston Bachelard inspired me to think about the phenomenology of intimate spaces.