Part experimental documentary, part auditory fiction, The Earth Refused to Catch My Fall is a radical listening project that explores how sound reorients and reorganizes our perception according to what is heard beneath, alongside, or against the visible. We understand our world through the rumble of a distant thunderstorm, the dawn chorus, and the whisper of a friend—each reveals invisible events, networks, and histories below the surface of the seen.
 
A central question propels this investigation—who has a voice? The voice has personal, political, and planetary dimensions. But what is the voice? Who is able to speak? And how ought we listen? Inspired by the imaginative landscapes and transformed bodies of Dante’s Inferno, this project uses a wide array of field recordings, sound processing techniques, and musical elements to journey through sonic underworlds—listening for the voices that reside in each one. It is a fiction of many geographies, materials, and scales.
 
It begins on a dark and stormy night…

Part experimental documentary, part auditory fiction, The Earth Refused to Catch My Fall is a radical listening project that explores how sound reorients and reorganizes our perception according to what is heard beneath, alongside, or against the visible. We understand our world through the rumble of a distant thunderstorm, the dawn chorus, and the whisper of a friend—each reveals invisible events, networks, and histories below the surface of the seen.
A central question propels this investigation—who has a voice? The voice has personal, political, and planetary dimensions. But what is the voice? Who is able to speak? And how ought we listen? Inspired by the imaginative landscapes and transformed bodies of Dante’s Inferno, this project uses a wide array of field recordings, sound processing techniques, and musical elements to journey through sonic underworlds—listening for the voices that reside in each one. It is a fiction of many geographies, materials, and scales.
It begins on a dark and stormy night…