Project Space Performances

The ACOUSTIC RESONANCE Project Space presents a series of Thursday evening sound art performances at 5:00pm, from the ICA front window to the street.

Thursday, November 12
Annika Earley, Sowing Songs

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Injecting meditative song and sounds of nature directly into the bustle of Portland, as a sonic interruption, Sowing Songs will affect how viewers experience their daily routines. A passerby might stop for a while to listen but then return to their commute. Even this brief interjection will hopefully act as a moment of reprieve. The SoundLetters were made during this summer as an antidote to the uncertainty I was experiencing; the work is intended to be meditative and peaceful.Annika Earley is an interdisciplinary artist who works in both visual and sound media. Earley makes multidisciplinary work about transformation, in-between states, and the experience of being a woman, often using folktales and folk music as reference points for her work. In Earley’s sound work, she is most interested in the phenomenology of singing. “Not only does singing create an intimate contract between performer and listener, it also has a profound physical effect on the singer as the vocal vibrations massage internal organs and lower stress responses. The act of listening is also deeply transformative; listening is, in some ways, an act of trust and vulnerability. Through dense harmonies, my work offers the listener a moment of this intimacy.”