MARFA SOUNDS INSTALLATION, MARFA, TX SUMMER 2019
360 Video of ‘Marfa Sounds’ Installation
This exhibition is the culminating presentation of a daily ritualized practice we conducted during our six week residency. This ritual involved listening to, recording, and drawing the sounds we encountered at distinct locations throughout Marfa and the surrounding landscape as an automatic and unbiased practice to intentionally absorb, reflect and reinterpret the sonic character of a place.
This collection of glyphs and recordings became the material for an immersive sculptural sound installation. Mounted with springs and hung within frames constructed from materials found throughout Marfa, a series of six industrial steel sheets were built, chemically treated, engraved and fixed with tactile transducers, creating a six channel reverberating sound system. Through these drawings and metal speakers, a new context was revealed by our practice - a work created through the process of constant reinterpretation - repetitive daily encounters, a visual record of sonic impressions, the modulation of natural sound, and the unforeseen character of amplified raw material.
We also published a zine of the Marfa Sounds Drawings available here.