TRACKS:

1. The Source of Our Awakening (The Culvert)
2. The Content Within (The Reflection Basin)
3. Liberty of the Possible (The Grove)
4. A Reason for the Sea (The Causeway)
5. Make it Here (The Pond)

What does “place” sound like when it, upon first impression, seems so familiar that one may bypass their imagination for the ordinary?

The locations around the gallery can serve as portals, or an impetus to possibility, that what we subconsciously navigate in our everyday patterns can be transformative to our encounter and expectations if we pace ourselves and listen. You will discover there is no actual silence or stillness afterwards. You may, through engagement, eventually find music in nature, and beauty in between the complexities and unanswered spaces.

What about the sound of time? Does it render the momentary or seemingly endless passage whose common denominator is ominous discord? Or does it gleam with consonant brightness toward the future? Do we hear or resonate differently when we revisit a place after a period of absence? Does the place itself repopulate with resounding motions other than our own?

The soundtracks you hear draw from the material form, and are an extension of my relationship to the natural world, and the lesser known, but no less important histories that have unfolded in these spaces through which you are walking. The elemental sounds or voices I use are not designed to elicit disquietude, but to evoke a sense of remembrance, as well as nature’s reclamation of these discrete, yet interrelated spaces—each being, at once, vast and intimate.

—Mary Edwards, SOMETHING TO (BE)HOLD, A Sound Installation. Premiere: September 23, 2021 at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Fall River, MA. Soon available as audio essay, Fall 2024.