Ether is a sound installation developed in collaboration with Tatsuro Murakami during an artistic residency at Kumonodaira, a remote plateau at 2,600 meters in the Japanese Alps. Reached after a two-day, fifteen-hour hike, the work emerges from field recordings collected across the mountain landscape, following the sounds of the water cycle, alpine lakes, and the elusive presence of silence. Presented through a two-speaker installation, the work explores echo, repetition, and mimesis as a conversation unfolding between the speakers, where sounds continuously respond to, imitate, and transform one another. Accompanied by an aroma distilled from Matsu pine, the installation reflects on forms of environmental communication that transcend the human.
