Videos have patterned motion, sound, and flashing lights.
Echolocation combines digital distortions with audio recordings of echolocating animals, repurposing discarded paintings to embody cycles of creation, decay, and renewal. Digital effects interact with painted surfaces to generate shifting images that evoke primal calls, tapping into subconscious rhythms and elemental forces.
Using echolocation as both a literal sound source and conceptual framework, the project explores how processes like melting, bleaching, and feedback loops reflect the degradation and transformation of ecological systems and societal structures. Echolocation, as both a method of sounding and searching, symbolizes humanity’s ongoing quest for meaning and belonging within a fragile and interconnected landscape, where survival balances isolation and connection to the greater cosmos.
2024. Full screen high-definition streaming optimal. Infinite video projection loops with echolocation recordings. Dimensions variable. Original composites include ink and acrylic on raw canvas.
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Image 1: Waterglyph seed. Sperm whale echolocations by smithereens https://freesound.org/s/749954/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Image 2: Lost lake wound: Sound credit: Bat Echolocations Lost Lake OR.mp3 by daveincamas -- https://freesound.org/s/21308/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 3: Lagan incubation. Sound credit: Bats 1.wav by iainmccurdy -- https://freesound.org/s/498406/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 4: Cretan awakening. Sound credit: Horseshoe Bat by iainmccurdy -- https://freesound.org/s/747642/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 5: Eurre struggle. Sound credit: Bat echolocation call captured with a batbox by Sacha.Julien -- https://freesound.org/s/724581/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 6: Garuda sorting. bat echolocation at 0.05 times speed by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/755275/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 7: Khagesvara enlightenment. Sound credit: bat echolocation at 0.07 times speed by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/755272/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
Image 8: Wetland crystallization. Leislers bat sonar Barnes.wav by deleted_user_1654820 -- https://freesound.org/s/98829/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0
Image 9: Chiroptera surrender. Sound credit: Just the bats from AlienXXX's Freesound#433734, but sloow.flac by Timbre -- https://freesound.org/s/450201/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
Image 10: Klankbeeld crucifixion. Sound credit: bat - frequency 1 percent org 03.wav by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/502489/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
Image 11: Canaveral fragmentation. Sound credit: ANMLAqua-dolphin-eldora-20240224 by nathanwolek -- https://freesound.org/s/727605/ -- License: Attribution 4.0