Synaptic Island: A Soundwalk
Kii Kang
2025 Summer Residency
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Synaptic Island: A Soundwalk is a site-specific soundwalk on Paggank/Governors Island. Titled in homage to composer Maryanne Amacher’s Synaptic Island (1992), the soundwalk reimagines Governors Island as a resonant nervous system—firing with memory, bringing back absent beings into temporary presences. The composition makes audible the absences of beings that haunt in sonic form. Like unidentified bones unearthed from a stratified past, these sonic remnants are reanimated as embodied (virtual) presences, felt through the eardrums, the soles of the feet. Continuously shifting between the “real” and the artificial, the composition weaves these spectral fragments into a hybrid, cyborg-like sonic body.
COLLABORATORS/SUPPORT
Video footage: Jayson Kim, Aya Kneitner
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