earth’song
What happens when we translate a soundscape?
earth’song asks us to consider the importance of natural soundscapes. It confronts the listener with the music present within all sound: the beauty in the unsilence of the natural world. Taking field recordings of natural ambiences across the world, I reimagine each sonic gesture in the soundscape as a musical one, reflecting them into musical form.
“…translation finds itself not in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language, the reverberation of the work in the alien one.”
Huai Kha Khaeng
Becoming a recognized wildlife sanctuary in 1974, Huai Kha Khaeng is an incredibly important region for conservation, acting as the intersection for the flora and fauna of the Sino-Himalayan, Sundaic, Indo-Burmese, and Indo-Chinese biogeographic regions. The region was historically part of the Ayutthya kingdom and is now one of the key recovery sites for several endangered and vulnerable species in Southeast Asia, including Banteng, Guar Sambar deer, and various tiger species.
Daintree
The Daintree National Park, established in 1988, is a world heritage site owned by the Kuku Yalanji people of Australia, located within the state of Queensland. The area is currently being actively expanded, with privately owned land being purchased by the regional, state, and federal governments for conservation purposes. The region contains significant numbers of plant and bird species, including significant populations of the endangered cassowary, and represents a key conservation region in northern Australia.