Commissioned for the exhibition, Life on Land, organized by the Emily & Todd Voth Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, and on view January 30-March 14, 2026.
Life on Land is an exhibition that considers the rich cultural and historical narratives that inform a connection to place.
Opening ceremonial consecration of the exhibit and installation: January 30, 2026, 7:00 PM
Time Seeds: A Prairie Cosmogram is a multi-channel sound meditation installation shaped by listening to the prairie across time. Field recordings, spectral transformations, and participatory mobile sound provide a chronophonic map of the land’s geological, ecological, ancestral, and future-facing temporal strata. These layers invite the experience of time vibrating at its own density, coexisting within a single, cohesive sonic experience.
The sound resonates like layers of geology accreting upon the land, and also invite a vertical listening, a kind of borehole through which these temporal layers may be explored and experienced at once. Sounds enter and recede, sometimes gathering briefly before drifting apart again, as weather and seasons do. What is heard as ancient, living, or emergent is not separate, but the same material witnessed at different temporal scales.
Visitors are invited to enter the sound landscape emanating from the exhibit, listen with their whole bodies and join the soundscape through their own devices by clicking the image on their cell phones, adding brief, ephemeral traces to the present layer. Listen deeply, and contribute seeds to this prairie soundscape, offering your presence to an ever-changing land as old as the hills themselves.
Time Seeds user interface
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