Community Project
This project moves between sound, drawing, animation, and performance. It is interested in transformation, in how one thing becomes another. A sound can become a drawing, a drawing can become a word, a word can become a song, and a song can become an image in motion.
The project begins with listening. It is also informed by the idea of quantum listening, where listening is not passive but active, and can shift how we perceive space, time, and one another. Sound is approached as something that can carry memory, imagination, and multiple realities at once.
During the first week, I will move through different parts of the community and record people speaking about the ocean. This may be a memory, a dream, a feeling, or a story they have heard.
I am interested in how the ocean is imagined. The myths, the unknown, the creatures, and the stories that are passed between people. Things that are real, and things that are not fully known.
These recordings will remain as they are. They will form a small archive of voices. People will be able to listen to them. The recordings become a space to enter, something that exists outside of time, like a dream.
After this, I will work with a group of participants. We will begin by listening, playing the recordings and sitting with them. From there, we will respond through drawing from sound, recording what we hear, and allowing a sound to become an image.
We will also work with voice. Repeating words, humming, and building simple rhythms. Through this, fragments of speech may become songs. There will be exercises based on improvisation and experimentation, working between sound, drawing, movement, and image.
We will speak about the ocean as a space of imagination. What lives there, what is remembered, and what is invented. Participants will be invited to create their own myths, creatures, and interpretations. In this we will also discuss fears and ways we can transform our fears.
Animation will be introduced as a way of thinking and expressing. Through simple techniques such as the thaumatrope and storyboarding, participants will begin to understand how images move and change over time.
We will also experiment with materials from the environment, such as sand and small collected objects. Using stop motion animation as a collective group and our bodies.
Movement will be present in a subtle way, allowing sound to enter the body through small gestures and repetition.
The different elements will come together into a collective piece, a simple film or recording that holds these transformations.
The project begins with listening. It is also informed by the idea of quantum listening, where listening is not passive but active, and can shift how we perceive space, time, and one another. Sound is approached as something that can carry memory, imagination, and multiple realities at once.
During the first week, I will move through different parts of the community and record people speaking about the ocean. This may be a memory, a dream, a feeling, or a story they have heard.
I am interested in how the ocean is imagined. The myths, the unknown, the creatures, and the stories that are passed between people. Things that are real, and things that are not fully known.
These recordings will remain as they are. They will form a small archive of voices. People will be able to listen to them. The recordings become a space to enter, something that exists outside of time, like a dream.
After this, I will work with a group of participants. We will begin by listening, playing the recordings and sitting with them. From there, we will respond through drawing from sound, recording what we hear, and allowing a sound to become an image.
We will also work with voice. Repeating words, humming, and building simple rhythms. Through this, fragments of speech may become songs. There will be exercises based on improvisation and experimentation, working between sound, drawing, movement, and image.
We will speak about the ocean as a space of imagination. What lives there, what is remembered, and what is invented. Participants will be invited to create their own myths, creatures, and interpretations. In this we will also discuss fears and ways we can transform our fears.
Animation will be introduced as a way of thinking and expressing. Through simple techniques such as the thaumatrope and storyboarding, participants will begin to understand how images move and change over time.
We will also experiment with materials from the environment, such as sand and small collected objects. Using stop motion animation as a collective group and our bodies.
Movement will be present in a subtle way, allowing sound to enter the body through small gestures and repetition.
The different elements will come together into a collective piece, a simple film or recording that holds these transformations.
