After premiering Bird Song Diamond in the 2015 New York Electronic Art
Festival, spent a few months in Japan as artist in residence where she had an
opportunity to further develop this work in the largest virtual reality space in the
world. In 2011, she was invited by evolutionary biologist and artificial life expert
Charles Taylor to join his highly interdisciplinary research group and help with the
outreach for “Mapping Acoustic Network of Birds.” It took her three full years of
absorbing, learning, and going along with the researchers recording and mapping bird
sounds early mornings in Santa Monica Mountains to start conceptualizing the piece.
She noticed that her relationship to space changed as she was hearing bird songs in
open spaces, both in natural and urban environments, and became keenly aware of how
we have edited this acoustic richness out of our daily experience.
