Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape
Visible Light
Visible Light will premiere a new environmental composition "Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape" at Reforesters Laboratory, shaped by field recordings and plant data collected in Puerto Rico’s El Yunque Rainforest, one of the oldest forest reserves in the Western Hemisphere.
The piece uses living textures of the rainforest to build immersive sound environments, incorporating site-specific field recordings, plant frequencies, and analog synthesis, combined with electro-acoustic cello, quartz and brass singing bowls, raw organic objects, and layered signal processing to form a new mode of ecological connection through sound, built from the natural frequencies of this sacred ecosystem.
Artist: Matthew Himes, Amy McNally
Matthew Hiram is a Minneapolis-based sound artist, composer, and ecological collaborator whose work explores the parallels between the natural world and the human experience. Drawing from acoustic ecology, deep listening, and environmental storytelling, Hiram blends natural sound with synthesis and dimensional processing to create immersive environmental sound spaces.
Amy McNally is a cellist and improviser whose practice expands beyond classical foundations, incorporating amplification, extended technique, and electronic processing to reveal new dimensions of the instrument. Her work merges composition with structured improvisation, drawing from devotional, modern classical, and jazz traditions to shape atmospheric and emotionally resonant soundscapes.
Visible Light is the collaborative chamber-ambient duo of sound artist Matthew Hiram and cellist Amy McNally. Rooted in environmental listening, their work combines site-specific field recordings, data-sonification, and analog synthesis, with quartz singing bowls, wooden bass flute, and layered signal processing, crafting spatial compositions shaped by wildlife patterns, pollination cycles, and solar rhythms.
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