MARY EDWARDS: Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place
Sun, Sep 24
|Epsilon Spires
An interactive live musical score combining text with audio and ambient field recordings gathered in the Arctic, sound artist Mary Edwards creates an "ode rather than an elegy" to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality and environmental connectivity.


Time & Location
Sep 24, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Drawing partly on sound as a vibrational phenomenon and Space Analogues, Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place is, according to composer Mary Edwards, “an ode rather than an elegy” to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality and terrestrial/space connectivity. It is comprised of a score and text performed synchronically (and sometimes improvisational) with an immersive soundscape of cinematic audio and ambient field recordings of ice, water and wildlife sounds Edwards gathered from landings around Svalbard, Norway while on a sailing expedition on a research vessel above the 78th parallel. It documents the sound properties of glacial geology and oceanographic data, intended to provide access for all through sonification by “de-centering the centered and un-othering the others.”
In her iterative process, Edwards fortuitously discovered a participatory constituent. She began inviting audiences to interact with the same gear/instruments/tools (hydrophones, contact mics, keyboards, Waterphone, bows and mallets) she used to record and create on,…
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MARY EDWARDS
Admission for one to MARY EDWARDS: Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place. Refreshments will be provided! Please choose your seating with respect for others and let us know if you require special arrangements. Thank you for your support! Enjoy the program!
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