Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape

Visible Light will premiere a new environmental composition, “Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape,” at Reforesters Laboratory.

The work is shaped by field recordings and plant data gathered in Puerto Rico’s El Yunque Rainforest, one of the oldest forest reserves in the Western Hemisphere. Using the living textures of the rainforest, the piece builds immersive sound environments that weave together site-specific field recordings, plant-frequency data, and analog synthesis with electroacoustic cello, brass bowls, gong, raw organic materials, and layered signal processing.

The music offers a new mode of ecological connection through sound, tuned to the natural frequencies of this sacred ecosystem. Presented in 24-channel Spatial Audio.

Join us for an evening of deep listening and connection to the living world.

7:00–8:30 PM | Saturday, October 18 

Reforesters Laboratory
147 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11249

https://luma.com/prkvn4x6

https://www.permaculture.media

https://www.matthewhiram.com

https://reforesters.io

https://visible-light.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-eventide

Matthew Hiram is a Minneapolis-based sound artist, composer, and ecological collaborator whose work explores the parallels between the natural world and the human experience. Drawing from acoustic ecology, deep listening, and environmental storytelling, Hiram blends natural sound with synthesis and dimensional processing to create immersive environmental sound spaces. ​Amy McNally is a cellist and improviser whose practice expands beyond classical foundations, incorporating amplification, extended technique, and electronic processing to reveal new dimensions of the instrument. Her work merges composition with structured improvisation, drawing from devotional, modern classical, and jazz traditions to shape atmospheric and emotionally resonant soundscapes. ​Visible Light is the collaborative chamber-ambient duo of sound artist Matthew Hiram and cellist Amy McNally. Rooted in environmental listening, their work combines site-specific field recordings, data-sonification, and analog synthesis, with quartz singing bowls, wooden bass flute, and layered signal processing, crafting spatial compositions shaped by wildlife patterns, pollination cycles, and solar rhythms. ​Reforesters Laboratory is an experimental adaptogenic cafe and sound clinic located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They utilize music – including spatial, sub-bass-centered, and organic instrumentation – along with breathwork, meditation, art, plant care and adaptogenic, nutritional foods + beverages to cultivate kindness—both physical and spiritual. The space aims to create an environment that offers peace, space, and clarity, helping people understand the connections between themselves, their communities, and the world around them.