The Yellowstone Project: The Story Below Ground

 An interactive sound sculpture installation composed of audio recordings of geysers, steam vents, mud pots and other natural geothermal phenomena recorded in Yellowstone National Park. The sounds emanate from steel cylinders and mix in real space, revealing a complex aural composition as the viewer moves through the space. Over time, the work reveals new compositional complexities as the listener’s auditory perception deepens. Producing this work required delving into professional audio recording, engineering, designing and speaker building. To fully experience the shifts/subtleties of this work, it is necessary to spend a little time just listening. 

steel, felt, foam, wood, electronic media components

dimensions variable

Listen to 2min. 20 sec. Yellowstone audio excerpt HERE

Talk to the Story Below Ground

A photo installation documenting my working process in Yellowstone National Park. Staging the recording equipment in the Yellowstone landscape, evolved into a character based theatrical response to how stories are generated and altered. Fictitious and unknown as told by the earth and our need to gather and analyze data revealed a new dimension of experiencing the phenomena of this otherworldly place. The camera and audio recording equipment become characters, narrating the unexpected and compounding the alien presence of both landscape and other.

dim: 44” x 84”  (12” x 18”) ea. Inkjet on watercolor paper

Funding for this project was made possible through the Puffin Foundation and Texas Woman’s University’s ORSP, CAS and SOA faculty research and development grants.