(hiding): secrets of nature

sound film/sonic fiction 24 min
2021 Prague Microfestival of International Writing, Art, Film, Theory and Performance

Speculating the aural worlds of insects and fish using collage from dozens of archived public domain nature documentaries, and field recordings with contact mics. 

The refrain “and mimicry is a common kind of protection,” comments on the artificiality of nature and desire to represent it.

Mark Peter Wright writes in Listening After Nature about the potential of foley as a field recording practice, that “deliberately faking nature can draw listening into territories of productive doubt. It promotes suspicious audition above romantic immersion” (2022:78).

I do so here to open to the indefiniteness of aurality beyond human audition, not toward sonifying or extracting it, but uncertainty and fabulation.