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ACA Soundscape Field Station Artist Talk / Sound Immersion / Soundwalk with Mary Edwards
March 3, 2022 - March 12, 2022
The ACA Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, announces Mary Edwards as its 2022 artist-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches that help preserve a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations.
From February 28 – March 14, 2022, Mary Edwards will live and work at the Doris Leeper home in Canaveral National Seashore. She will design a site-specific sound art installation welcoming the public to participate in its creation.
Events:
Artist Talk – 4PM March 3, 2022 at ACA Harris House (214 S. Riverside Dr, New Smyrna Beach)
Sound Immersion – 11AM March 8, 2022 at Canaveral National Seashore Apollo Beach (meet at Visitor’s Center) park admission not included
Soundwalk – 11AM March 12, 2022 at Indian River Lagoon Park, NSB (700 Sandpiper St, New Smyrna Beach)
free and open to everyone
Mary Edwards is an American composer and sound artist who uses the medium as an environmental or architectural element with the objective to enhance the listener’s spatial-sensory, historical and ecological awareness. Themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia, terrestrial/aquatic/airspaces and the natural world recur throughout her immersive installations and compositions. She says, “All sounds are habitable, and have the potential to be transformative once you get inside them. My process is to respond cinematically to their constructional and emotional aspects by locating a narrative and cultivate a soundtrack one may associate with acoustic intimacy. It is an extension of my relationship to the natural and human-made environs, its community, and their histories that reveal themselves in these spaces I explore, each being simultaneously intimate and immense.”
In 2021, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery produced her first career survey of sound works in conjunction with Something to (Be)Hold, her first large-scale public sound installation. Other projects have been commissioned and/or curated by The Provincetown Museum, The Beach Institute, Tybee Island Marine Science Center, The Joshua Tree Cultural Preservation Center, Indivisible Gallery, 429 Architectural Spaces and The William T. Davis Conservancy. Her most recent essays and writing can be found in Invert/Extant (U.K.), The Mentor that Matters series, and the anthology, Joy Has a Sound: Black Sonic Visions. In 2022, she will participate in The Arctic Circle Residency sailing expedition around Svalbard (the Norwegian archipelago between mainland Norway and the North Pole), where she will collect, then convert, glacial geology and ocean data into music and sound. She currently lives between Savannah and New York.