ELEONORA EDREVA
Projects:
re-
inearth/unearth
At each doorway,
Yelling Pillow
Cradle to grave
re-patterning slowly
The sound that surrounds
Once upon a future
A Garden...
Windy Season
Eau Doom
Video Work
Writing
About
Substack
Windy Season
2021For us, the windy season is a visual, sonic, and sensory embodiment of the frenetic energy and excitement over the anticipation of spring, which took shape in our piece as an environment of joyful, chaotic celebration akin to a club setting. To activate the sonic space, we remixed a techno track (‘Spectre’ by Mulder) with field recordings of a windy day in the Rio Grande bosque and human sounds mimicking the windy season. We were interested in the idea of wind sound as “waste” sound that often gets clipped out of audio tracks or soundscapes, as the lymphatic system is the primary source of cleansing and circulation of ‘waste’ products within the body. The sound acted as a reference to the processes happening in our bodies and our surrounding landscape during the spring. Our sound was designed to activate multiple planes of space with speakers positioned on the ground, at ear level, and overhead.
A primary goal of the installation was to get people to move their bodies, shaking off some of the frenzied energy of the windy season and getting their lymph moving. To this end, the installation incorporated two personal-sized trampolines, as trampolines are the best form of exercise to engage the lymphatic system, shifting the force of gravity on your body to help the lymph flow upwards with less resistance. The trampolines had two sensors attached to them that triggered the video projections to shift in content, speed, and hue when people jumped on them.
Windy Season is a collaboration with Jessica Metz.