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HET main (segmented) mirror, secondary structure, inside the HET Dome, McDonald Observatory, Ft. Davis TX
Structure Data conference at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on Wednesday & Thursday, March 9-10, 2016
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
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2018
OSB, PVA, steel, sound and speakers
This work was a sculptural installation made up of a wooden geometric structure housing an immersive soundscape. It also functioned as a community space hosting a series of events inviting dialogue around slowness, meditative spaces and our relationship to the natural environment.
The speakers on the structure played contact mic recordings of trees. Unlike normal microphones contact mics are almost totally insensitive to air vibrations and only detect structure borne sound. Each speaker is the sound vibrations created inside a different live tree.
The work considers structures in a range of ways from the literal geometric form and shape of the piece, through the man-made structures both tangible and intangible we exist in, and to the larger ecological web of nature that we are a living part. By investing time and attention on inexpensive building materials such as industrial building wood, I sought alternative layers of meaning and value. I laminated layers of chip board, sliced and smoothed them to create elegant wooden poles. I used geometric shapes common in natural forms, honouring our place as part of nature but also referencing the clean shapes of contemporary architecture. The soundscape was abstract and textural, surrounding someone if they stood in the middle of the structure, and akin to what I imagine a tree womb might sound like.
Link to sound: soundcloud.com/esmehodes/considering-structures
Link to video of event in structure ‘Tea, Cake and Contemplate’: vimeo.com/269730016
People were invited to a tea party to share food, drink and dialogue around notions of slowness and what it meant to them.
Structure Security conference at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco on Tuesda & Wednesday September 27-28, 2016