In March 2023, Jack Straw and Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA) presented an accessible youth and family art workshop at Jack Straw in conjunction with Sasha Petrenko’s New Media Gallery installation, Forest Time Water. Participants experienced Sasha’s work with an audio description from Jesse Minkert of Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences.

After exploring the installation and hearing about Sasha’s process and inspiration, participants learned about the concept of data sonification and how numbers can be translated into sound. Sasha and Jack Straw engineer Daniel Guenther guided attendees through the process of recording short musical samples, which were then manipulated and looped into an original soundscape. Before concluding, participants had the opportunity to explore the recorded samples and create their own unique mix.

Listen: “Cascade76” by Sasha Petrenko and gallery workshop participants

 

Photographs by Sherwin Eng.

This program was made possible with support from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington State Department of Services for the Blind, and individual contributors.

This program was provided in part under a contract with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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