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"The Wetland Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and real, simultaneously. It’s an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish there were more experiences like it."
—William Gibson
The Wetland Project book is the print component of a multidisciplinary and multimedia project centred on the sounds emanating from the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh, in unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia). The book is edited by artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings, who have been inspired by the sonic phenomena produced by this small patch of Earth to create a 24-hour Slow Radio Broadcast, based on field recordings from the marsh, that radio stations across North America and Europe have aired on Earth Day since 2017; a musical arrangement titled Wetland Senario, co-composed with Stephen Morris and performed by vocal ensemble musica intima; and a new media installation that algorithmically transforms sound frequencies from the marsh recordings into pure colour fields in flux.
Contributors to the book include novelist William Gibson, MP and former Green Party leader Elizabeth May, poet and spoken-word performer Susan McMaster, musicologist Stephen Morris, writer Alex Muir, poet and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation member Philip Kevin Paul, Stó:lō artist, curator, and scholar Dylan Robinson, sound artist and World Soundscape Project member Hildegaard Westerkamp, and curator, writer, and PhD student Laurie White. The algorithmic flow of colour fields throughout the publication combined with photos of the project and an audio interface accessed using smartphones and tablet devices will give the book a colourful, music box-like quality.
Awarded first prize in the pictorial category at the 2022 Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design.
—William Gibson
The Wetland Project book is the print component of a multidisciplinary and multimedia project centred on the sounds emanating from the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh, in unceded W̱SÁNEĆ territory (Saturna Island, British Columbia). The book is edited by artists Brady Marks and Mark Timmings, who have been inspired by the sonic phenomena produced by this small patch of Earth to create a 24-hour Slow Radio Broadcast, based on field recordings from the marsh, that radio stations across North America and Europe have aired on Earth Day since 2017; a musical arrangement titled Wetland Senario, co-composed with Stephen Morris and performed by vocal ensemble musica intima; and a new media installation that algorithmically transforms sound frequencies from the marsh recordings into pure colour fields in flux.
Contributors to the book include novelist William Gibson, MP and former Green Party leader Elizabeth May, poet and spoken-word performer Susan McMaster, musicologist Stephen Morris, writer Alex Muir, poet and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation member Philip Kevin Paul, Stó:lō artist, curator, and scholar Dylan Robinson, sound artist and World Soundscape Project member Hildegaard Westerkamp, and curator, writer, and PhD student Laurie White. The algorithmic flow of colour fields throughout the publication combined with photos of the project and an audio interface accessed using smartphones and tablet devices will give the book a colourful, music box-like quality.
Awarded first prize in the pictorial category at the 2022 Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
Imprint: Figure 1 Publishing
Publication Date:
06 December 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.50 in
ISBN: 9781773271996
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
"Could this be a new form of impressionism? At the Canadian Cultural Centre, three artists (Brady Marks, Mark Timmings and Stephen Morris) portray a place, the ṮEḴTEḴSEN marsh in British Columbia (Canada), through an immersive sound and visual installation. In other words, they reinvent landscape painting by inviting the visitor to a complete, sensitive and troubling low-tech experience. A very beautiful project, which is part of an acoustic ecology approach and wants to raise awareness of the preservation of wetlands."
—Beaux Arts Magazine
"A science fiction novelist, a sound artist, and a Member of Parliament walk into a marsh—and that’s not the set-up for a joke. It’s the modus operandi of the beautifully designed multimedia book Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art."
—Wire Magazine
"Wetland Project is a book that immediately engages the senses."
—BC Studies
"As a book, Wetland Project is an ecological adventure that doesn't recognize the limits of the traditional print format."
—photoED Magazine
—Beaux Arts Magazine
"A science fiction novelist, a sound artist, and a Member of Parliament walk into a marsh—and that’s not the set-up for a joke. It’s the modus operandi of the beautifully designed multimedia book Wetland Project: Explorations in Sound, Ecology and Post-Geographical Art."
—Wire Magazine
"Wetland Project is a book that immediately engages the senses."
—BC Studies
"As a book, Wetland Project is an ecological adventure that doesn't recognize the limits of the traditional print format."
—photoED Magazine