MARY EDWARDS: Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place
Sun, Jul 28
|Epsilon Spires
An interactive live score combining cinematic audio and ambient field recordings gathered in the Arctic, composer and sound artist Mary Edwards creates a meditative "ode rather than an elegy" to the connectivity and sensuality of the transforming Arctic landscape and Space Analogues.
Time & Location
Jul 28, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
Epsilon Spires is proud to present Mary Edwards' EVERYWHERE IS THE FARTHEST PLACE in collaboration with In Situ Polyculture Commons.
MARY EDWARDS: Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place, an iterative soundscape composition, combines an electroacoustic performance with field recordings of glacial geologic activity and oceanographic data Mary Edwards gathered while on an art and science sailing expedition on a research vessel above the 78th parallel in Svalbard. This ode rather than an elegy to the transforming Arctic based on eyewitness accounts of natural events—iceberg torrents, calving glaciers, whale song and converging subterranean rivers—is sonically recreated as a score with intention of “decentralizing the centered and un-othering the others.” It also pays homage to our water origins and the isolation and wonder of Terrestrial Analogue sites—places on Earth with assumed past or present geological, environmental or biological conditions of a celestial body such as the Moon or Mars—where NASA sends their astronauts…