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Installation for beauty salon, Los Angeles, CA, November 22, 2024 - January 18, 2025.
Twenty-four speaker nests, assembled from small wooden filing drawers prepared with transducers and filled with gravel of differing size, weight, and material. Each is driven by one of twelve channels of low-frequency noise, which rattles the particles in each drawer.
The frequency, length, and intensity of shaking at each speaker increases and accelerates over the course of an hour, in proportion to statistics tracking temperature, drought, and wildfire frequency in southern California. The intensity of sound increases, from single entrances in the first quarter of each hour, to a constant roaring in the last, as we hear the proportional acceleration of climate change over the last seventy years.
As we listen, we become aware that our seemingly static surroundings are changing, implacably, at scale and speed once too slow and large to be grasped by an individual at an instant.
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