Geneva Skeen – The Wall at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
The Wall was commissioned by Sonic Acts for the Spatial Sound Platform, presented during The Listening Room at Zone2Source in 2024.
The Wall reflects a new chapter of Geneva Skeen’s ongoing research into powerful leeside mountain winds. From the howling Santa Anas in Southern California to Chinook of the Rocky Mountains, Skeen traces momentous weather patterns across vast landscapes. This specific composition captures the blistering sound of the Alpine foehn.
Influenced by écriture féminine, alchemical metaphors, and a range of musical traditions ranging from holy mysticism to industrial, Geneva Skeen works with sound, voice, architecture, video, sculpture, and software.
Her recordings, performances, publications, and installations focus on site-specific landscape studies as a means to highlight complex interdependencies between perception, attention, and trauma. Through linkages made between our finite physical landscapes and their infinitely permutable digital representations, these works explore qualities of embodiment amidst climate catastrophe and late capitalism.
Presentation
Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
4 February – 10 March, 2024
Zone2Source & radio.sonicacts.com
2024.sonicacts.com
Photo: Spatial Sound Platform at Zone2Source, Sonic Acts Biennial 2024. Photo by Bora Sekerci.
