Sights, sounds, and textures of spaces around Rochester, NY and the province of Huelva, Spain were collected throughout 2025 to construct environment- defined compositions played through speakers hand-crafted from natural debris.

Foraged plants were broken down into fibers and pulp to be reconstructed as paper for the speaker cones. Field recordings of landscapes and ecosystems were used in the sound design of timbres in a suite of ambient musical compositions. The scavenged source materials condense rich, multi-sensory experiences of a variety of locations into a singular gallery location, where transmutations of those more familiar stimuli may be perceived anew.

The title, Cross-coding, refers to the cognitive processing and encoding of information from a stimulus of one modality (e.g., hearing) through the interpretation of another (e.g., vision). This exhibition is the first of a collaborative series on cross-modal integration of human perceptual experiences of the plants, creatures, geographic features, and constructions (and reconstructions) in our habitats.