Echomaking is a 22 minute video essay.
This work premiered as part of the Unsound: Intermission festival on October 8th, 2020.
The theme of “intermission” has informed my art practice well before COVID-19: whether I’m coming to grips with a hearing disability that makes the world pause and drop out like a baked cassette tape every day, gathering residual echoes from a failed computer factory in the Sonoran Desert, or unleashing voices from the guts of once-silent technologies I interpret as a museum curator.
The video moves through a network of interlocking stories related to the detour spaces of a chronic sleep disorder, the pandemic, Indigenous folklore about Detroit’s settlement, and my own Métis identity. The soundtrack is largely composed of field recordings gathered during quarantine: cicadas, crickets, rain, and train whistles are doubled up and pitch-shifted, transforming into ambient drones and percussive rhythms.
