Water Mining is an interactive sound sculpture built to collect and amplify underwater sounds of the Virgina B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park lake in Indianapolis. Audience members and passersby are invited to cast rocks into the park lake to generate 'water soundscapes' that are broadcast into the open air by the sculpture. The resulting sounds are also integrated into a live sound art performance taking place on a specially outfitted row boat moving across the lake. A later version of Water Mining was presented as part of the 'In Light In' art festival in downtown Indianapolis in the summer of 2016.
Interactive sound art performance with Jordan Munson
Water Mining sculpture at the Virgina B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park.
Water Mining
2014
Michael Drews,
sound design/performance
Brian McCutcheon, sculpture
Jordan Munson, sound design/performance
Water Mining musical performance on the canal, downtown Indianapolis, August 2016.
In 2018 an audio only version of Water Mining was commissioned as part of the Sound Expeditions project, a collection of works by Indianapolis artists. The collection is now installed as a sound kiosk at the Indianapolis State Museum.
