LAND ALLY (2025)
Marte Mei van Haaster
An artist’s journey through the PFAS crisis Zeeland & Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Exploring hemp phytoremediation through seasonal cycles
25-35 minutes | Spring 2026 Exhibition & Installation
For Land Ally, I propose to create an immersive sonic landscape where music, environmental sound, and human voices merge into one organic flow.
Musical Language
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Textural focus: The music will be built on evolving layers of sound, more atmospheric than melodic, allowing space for voices and environment.
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Integration with field recordings: natural field recordings (wind, water, soil resonance, weather shifts) in a dialog with composed textures (voice, strings, percussion, guitars),
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Seasonal changes: The score will reflect the progression of time, with shifts in density, tone, and texture following the changing seasons and cycles of the PFAS going thru soil and water.
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Environmental resonance: I will amplify and filter (various reverbs) subtle sounds (e.g. water droplets, air currents, soil vibrations), integrating them into compositional elements.
Sound Materials:
A palette of the sounds (prototype) is to be heard here:
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Air/Wind: atmospheric movement, breath-like textures.
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Rain/Streams: fluid rhythmic patterns, droplets as percussive elements.
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Ground/Soil: resonant, earthy layers evoking depth and sediment.
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Underwater: filtered, immersive sound beds with shifting resonance.
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Changing Weather: gradual transformations in tone, from calm to turbulent.
The palette is organised from top (atmosphere) to bottom (under water) and will be transformed as the film progresses thru the time.
Instrumentation: Combination of:
- Processed field recordings from the project
- Acoustic instruments (suggesting: prepared piano, strings, wind instruments, percussion)
- Choral voices (the human-nature connection)
- Electronic processing and synthesis
- Found sounds from hemp processing, farming equipment, water systems
Dynamic Range: From near-silence to immersive density, connected to both intimacy and the overwhelming scale of the problem
Spatial Thinking: Composition designed with installation presentation in mind (pending technical specifications – if a multichannel installation?)