Manipulated satellite imagery of Siletz Bay.

Seeing land as water and water as land through the lenses of geologic time and nautical maps.

This series began by drawing with ash that I collected during the Eagle Creek forest fire. 

I integrated overlaying imagery digitally, inspired by considering the flight path of the ash and memorializing the forest. 

Bands of color and texture that comprise a landscape image represent the separate audio tracks that make up a song.  The relationship of the visual elements to each other is transferred to the relationships between the sounds.

The inspiration for the audio comes from a process of separating out the distinct visual elements and then analyzing those visuals. 

The process of translating from image to music aims to expand the expression of the landscape. This process represents my own method of interacting with my surroundings as a way of understanding each new place I encounter.

Watch This Fray is a notation system for expressing a single moment in a song with a visual composition. Using elemental sound parameters (pitch, dynamics, resonance, timbre,) the appearance of each mark, as well as its placement on the chart, is inspired by the sound occurring at that particular moment. The accumulation of marks and moments expand the expression of the song, offering an alternative visual point of entry. This visible translation of music provides us with the beginnings of narratives  emerging from the collage of sounds.

Song Map pieces are the result of a process where I create a song followed by a visual translation of the music.

Both audible and visual mediums are a collage of language and non language elements. Through these elements I am exploring the parallel relationships between written language and image, and between spoken language and sound. They are an experiment with projecting the concept of musical time onto a still visual which exists irrespective of time. 

A partially hypothetical landscape

A Song Fragment at 45.946051, -123.992331 for 5 voices

Extracting Music from the Landscape