Elissa Goodrich. Juried Artist
Constellations
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Artist Statement
Everydrop-Everywhen, an original soundart work combines laboratory recordings (of bubbles), Antarctic fieldwork recordings (of ice, ambient environments, Weddell Seals, Bowhead Whales) and original instrumental recordings (prepared piano, vibraphone, woodwinds, double bass) to explore human perception and manipulations of timescales, and to rework our understanding of past, present and future by inviting us into a deeper listening of an underwater world.
It exposes and creatively manipulates bubbles. The timeframe in which bubbles ‘pinch off’ and create their sound is very small, a micro-second/s. Scientists manipulate audio-visual recordings (amplifying sounds and dramatically slowing down recorded visual events to capture these tiny events in order to perceive them within human scales (within sonic and visual perception).
Everydrop-Everywhen aims to offer an enhanced, creative approach to identifying and listening for bubbles; for recognising how these tiny, short events (bubbles) are incredibly powerful, beautiful and offer a vital, sonic, portal to understanding and predicting climate warming. It’s also a dedication to the unseen creatures in peril below the melting ice. In this convergent world of the laboratory and beneath ice-melting oceans – timescales are colliding, we re-contextualise the bubble event, and we’ve opportunity to comprehend it’s impact and its potential as part of global ocean warming (and restoration).
Styly link: Everydrop-Everywhen
About the artists
Elissa’s works play in festivals across Europe, North America and Australasia, and in internationally exhibited audio-visual collaborations. Elissa performed her Dusk to Dawn:Forgotten Songs Of Flight with Caerwen Martin, National Opera Centre (New York City, NY). Elissa co-led Shannon-Goodrich Ensemble with 2 nominations for Australian Jazz Work of the Year. Multi-Green Room Award winner, Elissa’s independent theatre work includes long-time collaborations with Australian-based directors and writers.
Since 2015 Elissa’s practice includes collaborating at intersections of climate science and new mu-sic. Elissa’s “Gene Tree” (ArtMusicFund, Australia Council for the Arts) culminated in: Opening National Science Week, Vic Parliament, 2017, and in partnership with St Martin’s YPAC, Royal Botanic Gardens, (2022), and 2x 2023 Green Room Awards for ‘Best Production’, and ‘‘Outstanding Composition’. Elissa was commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral to create feature-length composition “Rotations” for World Earth Day (2022). Elissa was selected as artist/presenter for CRiSaP’s Wild Energies (UK) and her soundart “Beneath_Above” featured at Sonorities Festival (Belfast), 2022, “Sounding with the Whales” featured in Polar Sounds (UK/Europe), and “Bubbles and Waves ii” for Tempo Reale/FKL’s “Soundstainability”, (Italy), 2023.
Elissa’s “The Waves Project” (Creative Australia, Creative Victoria) continues in partnership with Professor Manasseh’s ‘Surf Sounds’ (Swinburne).
Elissa is an invited artist-member of UNESCO’s Ocean Decade Network.
Credits: Composition and sound design: Elissa Goodrich, sampled musicians: woodwinds – Gideon Brazil, electric guitar – Elliott Folvig, double bass – Miranda Hill and Rodrigo Salgado, piano – Anon, percussion – Elissa Goodrich