ABOUT
A SITE RESPONSIVE
SOUND AND DESIGN PROJECT
The Exhibition
Aural Field Survey is an installation built from field recordings, photography, video, radio transmission, recorded memory and original music gathered across Canaveral National Seashore and the surrounding New Smyrna Beach landscape.
The sound installation is made up of seven independent playback systems. Each follows its own timeline, with different durations, starting points and periods of silence. Because the systems are not synchronized, their relationships continually change: a field recording may overlap with music, a radio transmission, a remembered voice or a distant storm, then disappear entirely several minutes later.
The photographs identify specific places within the survey. The audio approaches those same environments in different ways: as direct observation, human activity, electronic transformation, invisible transmission, personal memory and musical interpretation.
There is no fixed route or single ideal listening position. Move through the gallery, pause near individual speakers, approach the listening boxes, or remain in one place and allow the different layers to come and go.
What you encounter at any given moment is one temporary version of the field.
The Atlantic Center for the Arts Soundscape Field Station, a partnership between Atlantic Center for the Arts and Canaveral National Seashore, announces Lee Tesche & Staci Janik as its 2026 artists-in-residence. This residency program invites musicians, composers, and ecologists to find innovative approaches that help preserve a healthy and balanced soundscape for current and future generations. Atlantic Center for the Arts has over 45 years of experience in producing artist-in-residence programs that attract distinguished artists from all over the world.
From February 8, Lee and Staci will work at the Atlantic Center for the Arts campus and the Doris Leeper House at Canaveral National Seashore.