Garden of Vibrations — Erin Robinsong

ERIN ROBINSONG

Garden of Vibrations is a speculative engagement with soil and vibration in the land now called Bedford Square Gardens in London. Created over several weeks of listening to the soil in the garden with a vibrational sensor (a geophone), and informed by histories of this locked garden, voices passed through my body and unknown histories emerged.

I descend
I abscond
I refuse
through my ears
I travel
on a long silk rope
secreted from my auricle
tangling on roots
The soil is full of patterns
I visit them
swim in them
trip on them
blindfolded in a storm
in them
The earth sings & spins
The digestion of my head begins
It sounds like an egg hatching
It sounds like my skull hatching
It sounds like brains frying in a moving truck
A motorcade of bees driving stateless
through the underworld

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Created and performed by Erin Robinsong
Sound design Cosmo Sheldrake
Dramaturgy Nancy Trotter Landry

Publication
Graphic design Andrew Reid
Published by Communications Studio at the Architectural Association, RISO print edition

With the support of
Created with the support of the Architectural Association School of Archicture (London), as the 2024 Media Studies Artist in Residence.

Thank you
Special thanks to Inigo Minns, Tom Parkes, Anna Reynolds, Andrew Reid, Nissa Nishikawa and Mehrdad Seyf for immense support and generosity that made this project possible and helped it grow in unforeseen ways.