Change is constant, this configuration of material and these round windows enframing distance and rocks are temporary. Everything is temporary. 2675 revolutions of the Earth and counting, 7 years and 8 months of cycles: day to night, closing in on 8 trips around the Sun, nearly constant wind. The time stretches out, long silences punctuated by occasional visitors, the sun and moon arc through the sky, seasons pass. This continuity is difficult to measure, so short in the larger scheme but long enough for cycles to be established: the habits of animals, a certain readjustment of vegetable growth, scattered paths from parking area to structure, innumerable ways of being have developed in this brief time.

There’s no simple way to say it, language is already unstable: your red and my red are already different; we each look out the portal from a different viewpoint; I can never see you from where you see me; it’s not getting bigger you’re getting closer; gradually we became aware of a hum in the room.

The building listens continuously: to light, to sound, the movement of air, animals, minerals, that hum of vegetable life. We listen for songs within the vast expanse of what is already there.

The title of the project emerged from music so it seems fitting that this new phase should begin with a shared experience of sound; to experience the mutuality and alterity of sound against that backdrop of silence. We invite you to join us for a new series of activations, “Sometimes it is a Murmur, Sometimes it is a Pulse”, meditating on transformation and continuous difference. The ear is always open.

—Halsey Rodman