Role: Sound Design
Tools: Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Blender, Polycam
Vicissitudes is a composition based around the unique ecology of Bodega Bay in Northern California. Special thanks to Keira Monuki and the Bodega Marine Lab for commissioning this piece as a part of the Russell J and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship
This project offered me new experiences in incorporating scientific research into my work. Getting access to the lab as a recording space allowed me to entrench myself in the coastal environment and add a sense of presence to my work I previously haven't experimented with.
My goal was to capture how the ecology of Bodega Bay is constantly reinventing itself to survive in the ever-changing land/seascape due to rapid environmental shifts. Entire systems are swept away and forced to rebuild from the remains of others. Organic and synthetic textures mix and create something wholly new in the search of comfort in a world that never stops moving.
