Please listen with quality headphones or speakers for best experience.“Captures the experience of hearing gorgeous sounds from afar... evolving gently at a glacial pace into a tapestry of harmonic resonances and overtones. Surrender your undivided attention to Pour water on earth, and it may be one of the most rewarding listening experiences you’ll have.”
Video of tide changing direction in Sipekne'katik River, Bay of Fundy.“Beginning at the water’s edge, Dobbin struck their handmade drum each time the advancing tide met their body, and took a step forward toward the shore. Dobbin explains, “from low to high tide, these very simple and humble gestures grounded me in the experience as I became aligned with the (im)pulse of the ocean, entering a deep state of awareness where the rhythm was slow, cyclical and powerful.” Dobbin aims to translate this experience to sound. They ask only that we listen, and through a sustained resonance, we can for a moment experience the pacing, immersion, and ritual of their experience with this place.”
“An absolutely beautiful rendition of arriving here on this plane. So simple, yet so profound… subtle and powerful in its ability to evoke memory.”
Pour water on earth until it reflects the sky offers a trans poetics of listening—an ambient unfolding of attention, re-membered by water and held in a continuity of relation. Sound artist Lindsay Dawn Dobbin draws from their deep listening practice and ancestral relationship with the Bay of Fundy—through their Acadian lineage as défricheurs d’eau, or “water clearers”—to create a slowly evolving soundscape built on two tones that mirror the motion of a wave cycle. The piece follows a full moon intertidal drumming pilgrimage performed during the highest tides in 28 years, when the ocean rose an extraordinary 12 meters (40 feet) in just six hours. Dawn translates this elemental power into sound, inviting us to attune to the tidal rhythm of becoming. Like the ever-shifting shoreline where accumulation and erosion coexist, harmonics emerge and dissolve. Each sonic repetition reshapes the original, like tides pulling sound away from and back toward its source. In this love song to the Bay of Fundy, we hear water become land, and land become water—a testament to the animacy of continual transformation.
“The sound of slowness makes me think about arrival, not as an end in itself, but as a process and embodied experience with our surroundings, vast and open like the long performance that led to this audio work.”
