This project explores collaborative, place-driven sound gathering and spatial listening across the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park and around Hornby Island in British Columbia. Working with a “process over product” ethos, artists Jess Conn-Potegal and Daniela Cinel improvised through the landscape, sculptures, and the artists’ historical workshop, treating environment and material as co-performers.
Using a custom portable multichannel array, ambisonics, hydrophones, and contact techniques, they captured micro- and macro-acoustic systems—wind-sculpted steel, pond depths, circadian quiet, and the resonant barn where Rubinoff worked.
Their approach fused embodied listening, emergent composition, and data-driven sonic structures, including circumambulation and sculptural series numerics.
In June 2025, Conn-Potegal spatially re-interpreted these recordings at Virginia Tech’s ICAT Spatial Audio Tidepool, diffusing the material as a live spatial dub within multichannel environments, extending the research into immersive performance practice.
