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"The Wetland
Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art
that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and
real, simultaneously. It's an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish
there were more experiences like it." --William Gibson
The Wetland Project
book is the print component of a multidisciplinary and multimedia project
centred on the sounds emanating from the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh, in unceded W̱SÁNEĆ
territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia). The book is edited by artists
Brady Marks and Mark Timmings, who have been inspired by the sonic phenomena
produced by this small patch of Earth to create a 24-hour Slow Radio Broadcast,
based on field recordings from the marsh, that radio stations across North
America and Europe have aired on Earth Day since 2017; a musical arrangement
titled Wetland Senario, co-composed with Stephen Morris and performed by
vocal ensemble musica intima; and a new media installation that algorithmically
transforms sound frequencies from the marsh recordings into pure colour fields
in flux. Contributors to the
book include novelist William Gibson, artist and scholar Dolleen
Tisawii'ashii Manning of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation, MP and
former Green Party leader Elizabeth May, poet and spoken-word performer Susan
McMaster, musicologist Stephen Morris, writer Alex Muir, poet
and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation member Philip Kevin Paul, Stó lō artist,
curator, and scholar Dylan Robinson, sound artist and World Soundscape
Project member Hildegaard Westerkamp, and curator, writer, and PhD
student Laurie White. The algorithmic flow of colour fields throughout
the publication combined with photos of the project and an audio interface
accessed using smartphones and tablet devices will give the book a colourful,
music box-like quality.
Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art
that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and
real, simultaneously. It's an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish
there were more experiences like it." --William Gibson
The Wetland Project
book is the print component of a multidisciplinary and multimedia project
centred on the sounds emanating from the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh, in unceded W̱SÁNEĆ
territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia). The book is edited by artists
Brady Marks and Mark Timmings, who have been inspired by the sonic phenomena
produced by this small patch of Earth to create a 24-hour Slow Radio Broadcast,
based on field recordings from the marsh, that radio stations across North
America and Europe have aired on Earth Day since 2017; a musical arrangement
titled Wetland Senario, co-composed with Stephen Morris and performed by
vocal ensemble musica intima; and a new media installation that algorithmically
transforms sound frequencies from the marsh recordings into pure colour fields
in flux. Contributors to the
book include novelist William Gibson, artist and scholar Dolleen
Tisawii'ashii Manning of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation, MP and
former Green Party leader Elizabeth May, poet and spoken-word performer Susan
McMaster, musicologist Stephen Morris, writer Alex Muir, poet
and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation member Philip Kevin Paul, Stó lō artist,
curator, and scholar Dylan Robinson, sound artist and World Soundscape
Project member Hildegaard Westerkamp, and curator, writer, and PhD
student Laurie White. The algorithmic flow of colour fields throughout
the publication combined with photos of the project and an audio interface
accessed using smartphones and tablet devices will give the book a colourful,
music box-like quality.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Marks, Brady Ciel
- ISBN: 9781773271996
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 288
- Publication Year: 2022
Language:
English