ICOSA Collective Presents Soundscapes XII: Andrew Weathers / Days of Hot Water / Blessed Dirt

June 24 - July 26,2024

From ICOSA:

"ICOSA Collective is proud to present a psychogeographic sound installation created by Andrew Weathers.

Days of Hot Water / Blessed Dirt collects sounds from a week spent in northern New Mexico. The piece is a part of a long-term psychogeographic collection of work called The Land Ethic that I began in 2020. The name is drawn from an essay by early-20th century nature writer Aldo Leopold, a short discourse on an approach to treating land and the outdoors with love, respect, and admiration. In my own conception of Leopold's approach, I turn my ears towards appreciation of minute details of soundscape, making long-form soundscape recordings wherever I find myself. The Land Ethic is a psychogeographic practice intended to turn attention on the mundane and the boring, large-scale repetition of memory tracing a life moving through the landscape. Backyards, empty silos, deserted trailheads, and urban sound filtered through motel windows are all captured and included within my Land Ethic practice.

Andrew Weathers (b. 1988) is a composer and improviser based in the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.

His entire collection of The Land Ethic can be found on Bandcamp site: www.andrewweathers.bandcamp.com

About

The Soundscape Project consists of sound works played via an outdoor stereo system in the breezeway at the Canopy Complex (916 Springdale Road), from sundown to sunset each day. Each month ICOSA will feature a new sound artist, culled from local, national, and international artist submissions. Each monthly featured artist’s work will be played on a loop and will be accessible to the public free of charge. The Soundscape Project provides sound artists a unique and specific platform for their work, dedicated to the act of listening. For more information and to apply please follow this LINK

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On View: June 24, 2024 | 12-5 pm

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