Anne Bourne

sound artist / ecooacoustic composer, improvising cellist / trustee, advisor, consultant

Soundfield Memory Restoration Archive #3 Anne Bourne

walking land acknowledgement

Can you imagine the sound of all the human footsteps that have softly pressed this land for 15000 years before us; the rock surfaces, the soil, the tree roots, the mycelium filaments, the microorganisms, the underground rivers, the molten streams, the fire?

Can you imagine the resonant frequency of the earth in response, the microtonal array above?

‍ ‍Is it possible that one could memorize the sound of a place as one would memorize the world of a book, the universe of a library? The Soundfield Memory Restoration Archive presupposes that if we tune ourselves to be keepers of soundfields, if we can hold a soundfield in memory, we may imagine it’s beautiful complexity back into being. A trope on Oliveros’ Can you Imagine meditations which began as embodied visualizations for contemplation of space and time, maps of the body, and end as evocative choreographies for quantum listening. SMRA begins in the midst of fields of unfathomable loss. Breathes in the beautiful plurality of our ecosystems and sonic cultures, of all the pulses we may attune to, that indicate life and intimacy. And holds them safe as frequencies of light and sound, in the biometrics of sensorial experience and the interdimensional complexity of memory, imagination and dream invocation, resonant as particle listening.

photo: Care for the Stranded, cetacean extinction inquiry and listening walk. Learning Endings: Astrida Neimanis, Patty Chang and Aleksija Neimanis Puget Sound, Pacific Ocean, Lincoln Park, West Seattle