Places, Sounds, Portals, Worlds: A Soundscape Ecology Immersion
With Rebecca Bruton and Edzi’u
June 8 - 13, 2025
Open new portals to creativity and collaboration amidst the planetary spheres of sound, music, and landscape.
In this interdisciplinary eco-arts residency, participants will be introduced to conceptual ideas about collaborating ethically with landscapes and soundscapes, and learn a variety of approaches for generating sound, music, text, and performance compositions with/in the local Cortes Island surroundings.
Participants will learn somatic/sonic practices for listening, sensing, and sounding with/in landscape. Through collaborative outdoor activities participants will generate performance scores as both place-mapping and place-making. Participants will also explore the ancient and magical practice of geo-divination as a practical tool for generating writing and performance ideas amidst the more-than-human natural world.
The power of listening will be explored, through daily outdoor walks, meditative techniques, and lo-fi recording practices that support listeners as they investigate and expand their human range of listening and hearing. Participants will be challenged to hear sound as if it were a visual art piece, observing each section of the piece sonically and playing with the texture and vision of the world around us.
With the gentle support of Rebecca and Edzi’u, participants will be invited into greater attention and connection to the more-than-human world around us. They will leave the residency with a renewed sense of the rich possibilities available for collaboration with/in our natural surroundings.
Program Highlights
- Core concepts of eco-ethical collaboration through sound
- Opening self to feeling place
- How to use lo-fi tools to imagine and transmit sound textures
- How to make a performance score with/in a place
Expected Activities
- Somatic experiencing practices
- Voicework
- Deep listening
- Making scores for listening and walking
- Soundwalks
- Lo-fi recording
- Soundscape writing with on-hand tools
- Individual and group creation
Testimonials
“As a meditative beat and ambient synths slowly drift past, spoken-word samples alternate with Edzi’u’s soaring, sublime vocals to create a multi-dimensional, multi-faceted work that is simultaneously cinematic and anthemic, thought-provoking and compelling, topical and timeless.” —Darryl Sterdan, The Tinnitist
“In Bruton’s “Faerie Ribbon,” it’s the composer’s own folk-ish, wordless singing and shy whistling that feels deliciously alien, limning elegantly proportioned lines and shapes…a solemn, melancholy reverie of unabashed beauty and deceptive simplicity.” —Peter Margasak, Bandcamp Daily)
Daily Schedule
A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.
Presenters
Rebecca Bruton is a composer, songmaker, vocalist, and guitarist based in Calgary, Alberta. She creates work that moves in the narrow space between sorrow and celebration, drawing upon interests that include the pace of trekking through the Rocky Mountains, land/blood memory, the choreographic, multi-species kinship, and the malleable nature of…
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Edzi’u is an Indigiqueer Tahltan and inland Tlingit performance and sound artist, songwriter, composer currently based out of xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ territories. They received a degree in Music Composition at Vancouver Community College in 2019, with a minor in classical voice. Edzi’u creates electronic soundscapes with audio clips of the…
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