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Jacek Smolicki 2023 Airtist in Resident Contributions
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Hello, my name is Yatak Smolitsky.
In early 2023, I was a resident at the Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore.
I invite you to listen to a sandwalk composition that I made based on my field recordings here
and some archival material.
It is intended to shift your attention to a range of soundscapes that characterize the
park, both those hidden and hard to ignore.
You can choose where you walk and listen or refer to the map for the suggested starting
points.
You will find the map on this webpage or on the sandwalk flyer you picked up at the
Visitor's Center.
To learn more about this piece and sounds you will hear, please feel free to have a seat
and read the text below.
To do it, pause this recording and when you are finished reading, press play to resume.
I hope you will enjoy this sandwalk composition and discover the power of listening.
A sound to preserve would be the sound of nature with no human interaction at all because
things like the beaches are being covered in trash, the Amazon forest, like the Amazon
are being burned down for pastures.
That is all of that a lot of us might not be able to get to see in the future.
Let alone hear, it will be a lot more noisy.
More mechanical noise is not as much natural noise.
I think in the future there is going to be a lot more car sounds, airplanes, human sounds,
a lot of that and a lot less in nature.
If I could preserve the sound of nature and stuff, I would by making it quieter cars that
still are accessible for the blind.
I mean, change is the only thing that will happen, but what will it change to?
Will it just be the sounds of human noise?
I hope it's just not an electrical buzz.
I hope it's not the absence of sound.
My let's can be deafening, right?
That term, I hope it's not like that.
I enjoy the sounds for the most part.
A lot of times I think the biggest thing is we have to tell ourselves, stop, slow down.
Take time to take it in.
We think that we're doing it, but we get into almost a routine and overload and say, I
got to get this done today.
I got to get this done.
I got to get this done.
And we don't bother to look around and see all the animals and all the creatures that
have been here before us and then the different sounds and how they affect our environment
and even how they're calming to us, even with their sounds.
If you listen and we're listening to their sounds, it brings a calmness over you.
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It's just like a lot of, like a build-up of noise and then silence.
I think the future is going to be dominated more by entrophony
instead of biophany and geophany,
and that most of the world is going to be man-made things.
The sound that I would like to constantly hear is
the sound of happy children.
I mean, I love the ocean. I love the ocean.
But there's something where I grew up in Philly
that sounded happy children to me and laughing.
They may be fighting, but the sound of children alive is my sound I love.
I am most oceans.
I don't know. I just feel like what I want for the future is for everybody to be loving
and stop all the politics, division, religion, division.
I mean, I don't know. I mean, that was just what I would like the future to be.
The breeze moving through the trees, which maybe you can actually hear as I'm speaking.
Animals in the water coming up and going back down into the water,
the sound of the ocean always.
I have no idea what the world will sound like,
but I hope there will at least be waves of laughter in it, whatever else is going on.
All sounds do is remind us of something.
And everybody, everything everybody said, the ocean sound that is the Brooklyn
is what makes the individual feel good now.
I'm not so sure that it matters in future generations.
Here, the Brooklyn Sound are something that they can't associate visually.
But I don't see any need to preserve any sounds.
They'll be lost when the generation that has them loses them.
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languages. All the different languages the world should be preserved because we don't
really have many recordings from long time ago and languages are lost that way.
That's one and two, the accents.
Certain famous public speakers, if you think about it, no one's here has ever heard what
George Washington sounds like. So certain public speakers, for the future for history,
would be good to preserve. Certain people's opinions are like equal rights for at least
or just anything. They should try and preserve those as much as possible for the future for
history.
A sound that I would preserve is the sound of footsteps when you're hiking through the
woods and all that. I like the height.
The sounds that I love, but also the sounds that I think and really hope that should be
preserved in the future, have to do with tranquility and making sure that there is still space
between sounds. But giving time to understand the rhythms of nature so that, for example,
listening to the breeze through palm fronds and listening to its rhythm and not imposing
my own sense of what I think that rhythm should be or what I expected to be, allowing these
things that are beyond my control, give me this sense of awe, in this sense of tiny awe.
Yeah, I mean, there's almost a magic to hearing this surprise. I think I would be really
sad to know or to find out that these sounds have gone away one day.
My favorite sound is the sound of bees, that buzzy. I ask my life, what are the things
I used to listen to? It's a wave in its nature to listen to when I am on those lines, driving
like that's so cute. Dolphins and relatives and shrimp. Fish I like when they jump in
and then go out of the mouth. That's what dolphins do too, and the manatees.
It's something special to experience and to think that someone else might not be able
to have that. It's not really about me, it's really about them. Their hearing sounds all
day every day and they need that sound. I'm kind of a guest here really.
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"One Step at a Deep Time" a Soundwalk composition for the ecotones of Canaveral National Seashore.
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