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Impending Bloom_2024


Sound Installation: Synthesizer, Megaphones, MP3, looping swells of ocean sounds.

A part of an analog sound spatialization system that consists of a panning stereo and two megaphone speakers that whisper the sounds of the river and the sea, in a call to action, a beacon for us to listen for the subtlety of their existence. The megaphones are in an ebbing and flowing loop of water sounds, calling to each other from across the space.

Review from MAUREEN :

“Impending Bloom (2024) is a sonic provocation. Inspired by the Colorado River, it echoes the ecological ripple effects of the river flowing south, flowing from the mountain’s foothills, from the dryness in soil that feeds fire and the black char of burnt forest at the water’s edge, from the curves in natural embankments through the rigid contours of imperial water management systems. The soundscape is a deconstruction, a synthetic resemblance, a distortion, a yearning, a guide. The megaphones harken protest, or also, a trumpet or a flower. Sonic blooms opening, closing and amplifying as softly and persistently as a river current through one’s fingers. Where is your body in this? Where is the water body? The Colorado River flows across state lines and borders as a water source to millions, to kitchen taps in L.A. and casino fountains in Las Vegas, to mammals, reptiles and amphibians, to slugs feeding on algae, feeding fish. It begins in the mountains. It starts as droplets within the runoff of the snow melt collecting into a stream, into the river. It reflects individuals in collective entity, formed from individual actions that contain human complicity and consumption also. The sonic patterns beckon sensorial memories and emotional resonance from sounds converging and diverging through two channel sound streams. The soundscape presenting a resonance of cycles – water cycles, life cycles, weather cycles – and felt intricacies of what the water was, where it is going and what it may become. The sound’s persistence an indeterminable hum, unsettling the body in its alarm call. The work asks the viewer to step back and listen. How do these choreographic tones relate? What are we protesting? Where can we repair?” 

-Margaret Lapp,
MA, Writer, Art Historian