Tracing Echoes between Tides: Drawing, listening, sounding

Tracing Echoes Between Tides – Movements 1 and 2 is comprised of a sound feedback recording and drawing that articulate the interconnected processes of listening and sounding at Long Reef headland in Sydney, Australia. This project report explores the embodied relationships between drawing, listening and sounding, and the significance of gesture as means of interacting with the surfaces of rocks and drawing supports. The recording captures reciprocal listening and sounding processes that enabled my bodily entanglement with the topographical features and atmospheric conditions of Long Reef. This engagement was further developed by listening to the recorded sounds and re-performing the gestures to produce marks on paper in a generative process that interpreted the timbre and quality of sound feedback, the trajectory of gestures and the surfaces of rock. By engaging with the spatial motility of sound and the expansive space of audition, drawing through listening became a distinct form of engagement with Long Reef.