Join us March 6 at 7 p.m. at 101 Archer!
Thanks to the hard work of Brad Rose, one of this year’s SPACE seminar fellows, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities will welcome Patricia Wolf to 101 Archer for a free live performance.
Patricia Wolf is a musician, sound designer, and DJ residing in Portland, Oregon who uses electronics, voice, and field recordings to produce non-linear compositions that draw listeners into a hypnotic inner world. Her use of melody and repetition alter the listeners’ perception of time, conjuring vivid textures and atmospheres.
Her official debut album, I’ll Look for You in Others (2022), is the result of a painful time in the musician’s life. Wolf wrote and recorded the album in 2020, in the aftermath of losing her mother-in-law to cancer and then, months later, losing a close friend. Created using her bread-and-butter materials—synthesizer and voice—in unfamiliar ways, the album served as a means of processing heartbreak.
Wolf found inspiration in spectral processors—fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms that pull apart and reconfigure audio. To Wolf, these reconfigurations function as a metaphor for grief itself—a means of representing the transformation that happens when our loved ones pass on, but remain within us in perplexing and profound ways.
On March 6, Wolf will perform “Sounds of Hope” and discuss her work with Rose. “Sounds of Hope” is an ecologically inspired work of field recordings and ambient music that celebrates the remaining natural spaces near her home in North Portland. These songs trace the perilous migrations of the Northern Red-legged frog, express the power and beauty felt within one of the last stands of old growth forest in the Portland area, and say farewell to a superfund site just blocks from her house that is now being restored after 70 years of industrial pollution to make way for a nature park for native species of plants and animals. Patricia will share the hidden sounds from these spaces that she has gathered with her various microphones and will perform music to accompany them that honors the existence of the many living beings who have called this area home for millennia. These compositions are made with the intention of inspiring people from all over the world to look and listen to the unique natural environment around where they live and seek out ways to protect and restore their local habitats so that all living creatures can thrive.
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