Weather Gardens

Sound Installation & Metal Sculptures

Weather Gardens is an installation exploring human-shaped sonic ecologies in the age of the Anthropocene. The work takes the audience through a 15-minute audio-visual experience with infrasound where an inaudible bandwidth of 0 – 20 Hz is filled with shockwaves caused by human activities.  

Gas flares, extreme weather, atomic booms, flash floods, mining blasts, plummeting space debris, whooshing turbines, air strikes, iceberg explosions, and wildfires all emit infrasonics. These phenomena are a space of the inaudible, the energetic, and the unheard - raising the question:

 “How should we listen and attune to the new sounds of a shifting Earth?”  

Inside this immersive installation, Matter & Energy are let loose through a specially designed low frequency subwoofer system. The speakers transmit high energy shockwaves, pressures, and airwaves that compose a micro-weather environment. The space is organised as a 17.2-metre-long corridor, the exact wavelength size of 20 Hz. Additionally, the installation has 6 autonomous performers in the form of 6 vertical thunder sheets. These metallic bodies become physical points of translating and transmitting the vibrations of our unheard climates. 

Microphones are stationed at the following locations:  
Qaanaaq Glacier in Kalaallit Nunaat  
Pico Volcano in Azores  
De Blit in The Netherlands 
Arsenale in Venice, Italy