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Haar and Brume is a site- and situation-responsive outdoor sound installation that envelops participants in a shifting sonic atmosphere. Comprising 20–26 lighted objects, each housing a small, battery-powered speaker, the piece generates a dense, rolling wave of sound that mirrors the experience of coastal fog. The installation plays recordings of variations of pink noise—brushes on drumheads, distant traffic, flowing rivers, rustling leaves—blurring the line between natural and constructed sound.
The objects are arranged at a distance to surround the audience, encouraging movement and exploration of the site. As the sound thickens and dissipates, participants experience a gradual immersion, similar to being cloaked in fog before emerging again into their natural surroundings. The work is shaped in dialogue with the geometry, acoustics, and layered history of Fort MacArthur, inviting reflection on the ways sound and landscape interact.
Cassia Streb and Tim Feeney are both LA-based sound artists who have been performing, recording, and creating sound installations together since 2019. Their sound pieces explore instrumental and found sound, movement, tape recorders, door frames, window panes, rainstorms, pine cones, concrete floors, and children’s cartoons. They have collaborated to create sound projects for High Desert Soundings in Wonder Valley, Sound Symposium in St. John’s Newfoundland, the Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz, and other special places and unique circumstances. Their albums have been released by MAPPA, Infrequent Seams, Full Spectrum, Harmonic Ooze, Sawyer Spaces, and Extradition.
Artist Location: Pasadena and Northridge, CA
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