Something to (Be)Hold

Large-scale site-specific installation encompassing a five-part series of meditative, environmental sound walks intended to be listened to in the landscape surrounding the Grimshaw-Gudewicz gallery in Fall River, MA. The public work premiered in 2021 with Edwards' mid-career retrospective survey of environmental compositions (2011-2021).

Conservation/Conversation

What are the parallels between a gentle rainstorm and a NASA rocket launch in the distance? A whisper in your ear and the crashing of ocean waves, or the beating of a drum and your own heartbeat when all else appears silent? What do we know what to listen for, and how do we describe these sounds to others? How does the practice of deeper listening raise our awareness to soundscape ecology, our compassion, or stewardship and healing of each other and the wellness of the environment?

In Conservation/Conversation, 2022 ACA Soundscape Field Station Artist-In-Residence Mary Edwards explores the distinctive habitats and soundscape ecology of Apollo Beach in this audio companion to her poetic essay and a free verse narrative account of the collaboration of visitors to Canaveral National Seashore who participated in her interactive and real-time exhibition.

[The Intimate Immensity Project]

Tiny books, as with any size, are like portals to the imagination. What it would be like to recreate certain natural events by visualizing the sonic immensity of calving glaciers, sea torrents, arboreal form, and range migration of trees in intimate environmental drawings, paintings and graphic scores that capture sound data as vibrational phenomena?

Four Pageant Motifs for Ida B Wells is a score for Ida B N' The Lynching Tree, a theatrical performance that tells the story the posthumous Pulitzer Prize Award winning journalist and founding member of the NAACP, by moving through major events of her life to include her lifelong crusade against lynchings and inequities. Directed by David Poole (The Collective Face Theatre Ensemble), book by Carolyn Nur Wistrand. Premiered in 2022 for the 33rd Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Click to listen.