Untitling

Sound is our first sense. Before birth we encounter the world through vibration, developing an embodied understanding of relation long before language. Vibrations of sound move through air, water, skin, and bone, crossing boundaries with ease. Sound is both immaterial and deeply physical: an event continually unfolding between bodies and environments.

At EMPAC, Untitling transforms the listening space into a site for reflection on how sound exceeds systems of categorization. Through careful attention to resonance, vibration, and environmental detail, the installation proposes listening as a practice of reciprocity—one that foregrounds our entanglement with the living world and opens possibilities for experiencing place as dynamic, interconnected, and continually becoming.

Developed through recordings gathered in exchange with forests, waterways, grasslands, deserts, and urban environments, the composition dissolves distinctions between environmental sound and synthesis. Electronic frequencies emerge not as simulations of nature but as another living presence within a shared ecology of vibration. Rather than documenting place, the work proposes listening itself as a form of placemaking.

Composed of field recordings and voice altered through playback, as well as synthesis, Untitling invites audiences into an evolving sonic environment where sound becomes a way of sensing ecological interdependence, memory, and place beyond the limits of language. Fragments of place emerge, dissolve, and return, inviting listeners to inhabit duration rather than resolution.

In these shifting resonances, Untitling imagines sound and acoustic ecology not as representation, but as an active participant in shaping right relations between bodies, technologies, and the living world.

As you listen, imagine each being inhabiting its most abounding state. Consider what becomes possible when listening is understood not as observation, but as reciprocity. Consider how sound and listening become a means of tending, remembrance, and return.