Resonant Soundscape

Project Vision

Resonant Soundscape is an artistic exploration of connection and belonging through the collective creation of sound in nature. We intend to host two community events in 2026 at our soon-to-be-installed Yurt - one focused on BIPOC children and one on BIPOC adults who identify as nature-informed artists (all based in Vermont). 

Participants will be brought in as paid co-artists alongside our facilitators, spending a day creating improvisational sound and music together. Audio files from these gatherings will be recorded and curated into a soundscape that can be shared with broader audiences, primarily via radio transmission. 

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Image of the land at Ezili’s Respite, where live workshops for Resonant Soundscape will be hosted

Artist Statements / Work Samples:

As we seek resources to support this vision, we wanted to share more about the local Vermont artists who will be facilitating the creation of Resonant Soundscape:

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Lead adult facilitator isDylan Bolles, a music composer, multi-disciplinary performer, and collaborative artist whose current work focuses on healing our relationship with the more-than-human world. Dylan is a member of Lost Meadow Land Cooperative in central Vermont, USA, where he and his family are raising goats and running Bottomless Well, an off-grid arts and ecology immersion program dedicated to providing land-based living and learning opportunities to historically marginalized and un-landed peoples. Dylan received his Doctorate in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis, and is a founding member of Thingamajigs Performance Group, a long-running and long-playing composer’s collective out of Oakland, California. Specialism: Deep Listening, Environment/Conservation/Eco-Embodied/Horticulture, Mindfulness, Music, Voice / Vocal Work & Song

Experience some of Dylan’s prior work here:

https://vimeo.com/506823447?p=0s

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Lead youth facilitator is Kind, a Jamaican filmmaker and certified Sound Healer born into a family of music and rhythm. Over the past 17 years, she has co-created spaces with youth of all ages, focusing on cultural and ancestral connections to nature. 

Artist Statement: “As a Jamaican filmmaker and certified Sound Healer, I see sound as a form of connection, a portal to memory, a bridge to the “new,” and a vehicle of belonging. I bring my whole self—ancestral rhythms, deep cultural roots, and an appreciation of sound—into every space I’m in. In Resonant Soundscape, we will all become instruments of sound—listening deeply, co-creating freely, and feeling our way into shared space. Together, we explore sound as a form of expression, healing, and collective joy—because sound is not just heard; it’s felt and shared.”

Art Sample: The images below are a selection of photographs from Kind’s 15-day exhibit entitled Irie Apples: A Celebration of Vermont’s Jamaican Migrant Workers, shown at the Surdam Art Gallery in 2014. “Irie” is a Jamaican word describing a state of ultimate positivity and all-encompassing serenity, and the exhibit celebrates the vitality, resilience, and contributions of Jamaican migrant workers who have helped shape Vermont’s social, cultural, and economic landscape for over 50 years. Using documentary photography, the project honors these individuals as essential members of Vermont’s food system and social fabric. Just as Resonant Soundscape will weave sound into a braided web of collective experience, Irie Apples traces the interwoven connections between Jamaica and Vermont, culture and belonging.

Photographs by Kind from the Exhibit Irie Apples: A Celebration of Vermont’s Jamaican Migrant Workers (2014)

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Audio recordings and final transmission audio will be produced byKhonsu X, a transmission artist and Vermont African-American/ African Diaspora Artists’ Network member (VAADAN).  Khonsu is an experimental audiophile; a classically trained violinist since the age of six, his style of play is intuitive, free-form, and constantly in search of resonant frequencies. his poetry is informed by his experiences as a queer Black man traveling across Turtle Island, always ending up in the mountains. 

Experience Khonsu’s unique approach to audio storytelling in his piece “From the Outside”, available here: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/zwzqmh and/or here: https://www.oralhistorysummerschool.com/archive-remix

As well as Khonsu’s audio piece for Clemmons Family Farm’s “Beneath our Skin” Exhibit (2024), available here: https://clemmonsfamilyfarminc.aviaryplatform.com/r/nz80k27h9c

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Production of Resonant Soundscape will be coordinated and supported byTitan Potter, co-steward of Ezili’s Respite and co-producer of “The Broken Bois Collective presents…” on Central Vermont Community Radio.

Experience Titan’s prior audio work with Khonsu X as Wave Farm Artists-in-Residence here: https://wavefarm.org/ta/archive/artists/zbv0kx

The project is also supported by artist and author, Sasha Hom, co-founder of Bottomless Well.

Learn more about Sasha and her recently published novella, Sidework, here: https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/sidework

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