Tidal Tears
2025
Site-specific installation
Petrified wood, water, multi-channel soundscape played from 12 hidden loudspeakers
Voices: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Duration: 10’00” min
Shelter
3rd Helsinki Biennial
Vallisaari, Finland
Curated by: Blanca de la Torre and Kati Kivinen
Tidal Tears is set in a small grove on Vallisaari Island created for the 3rd Helsinki
Biennial. The installation combines petrified wood, running water, and a voice-based
soundscape played from hidden speakers surrounding the site.
The sound moves between abstract texture and song, by reinterpreting field recordings from forests; the voices trace different layers of an ecosystem, from the worms in the soil rising all the way up to the canopy before sinking back down to the ground.
The work is as much a sensory experience as it is a quiet memorial, a contemplative site that attunes us to the subtle rhythms and unseen circulations of the living world.
Collaborators
Echo Vocal Ensemble – voice and song
Guillaume Soula – field recordings / sound design
Recorded
Studio 7, London, UK
Postproduction
EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, Sweden
Commissioned by
HAM / Helsinki Biennial
Supported by
Tiftö Foundation
Video documentation: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1131613509
With thanks to:
JJ Lems / Xyleia
Laurence Hussey / Studio 7
Sasu Rissanen / Goljat
Julia Giertz
Sophia Brous
Sami Suihkonen
Sampo Wiik
