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Our Window - A sound art piece by Dani Ferreira Amaro

From February 24 – March 31, 2025, Dani Ferreira Amaro explored Canaveral National Seashore as its ACA Soundscape Field Station Artist in Residence, creating sonic happenings and a site-specific sculpture. Amaro’s approach to environmental storytelling combines the process of sustainably creating textiles from organic materials to broaden her practice by exploring new ways audiences can tangibly experience music. She is a trained jazz musician and music teacher in Miami, Florida who shares her heritage across distance from the Global South to Florida. Artist Statement Utilizing the voice as an instrument to explore experimental realms of modern folklore and storytelling, I weave together elements of vocal percussion, improvisation, and harmonic choral modalities in composition. I find home, and the greatest well of inspiration in the strong yet whimsical sounds of the natural world, oftentimes performing in tandem with my looping pedal and traditional percussion instruments. Through working in multi-disciplinary collaborations, such as involving choreography and theater, I aspire to highlight the interconnectivity across mediums. By delving into bodies of work that reflect intergenerational themes of catharsis, one can process indigestible collective emotions such as trauma, grief, joy, etc. within a shared created community. This provides essential tools in navigating the dimensions of my multi-faceted diasporic experience, while informing every step and expression of my musical transdisciplinary practice. Currently, I am researching the process of sustainably creating textiles from organic materials to broaden my practice by exploring new ways audiences can tangibly experience music. Our Window This site-specific piece reflects themes of the home, and invites audiences to actively participate in, and reflect on the intimate sonic stories they hold. These curtains encompass a hand made bio-textile, derived from Sargassum found along Miami and Florida’s coastline. On the curtains, are Sankofa ironwork iconography, resembling a common wrought iron barred window that is found in both South Florida, the Caribbean, and the Global South, thus connecting these vast places particular to my heritage across distance. As Sargassum is known to filter out pollutant debris from our oceans, as well as provide refuge for marine life, one is invited to draw parallels and contemplate the similar functions of preservation, protection, intimacy, and shelter, Sankofa ironwork provides to the many homes of historically displaced peoples. The symbolic iron work is designed to be electro conductive, playing songs when touched and interacted with. These compositions are made from a blend of meditative looped vocals and mirrored field recordings from diverse locations recorded during my time in this residency. Homage is paid to Doris ‘Doc’ Leeper, an instrumental figure in establishing Canaveral National Seashore through environmental arts activism. In adorning her historic house windows with stained glass bio-textile, it further conveys this historic site as a secular sacred space of convening, creativity, and storytelling. For more information on the residency, visit https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/... This program is supported by Atlantic Center for the Arts, Friends of Canaveral, the City of New Smyrna Beach, and the Cultural Council of Volusia County.