This sculpture is made up of four music boxes hidden along the forest paths in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Each box plays a short piece I composed based on the birds I could hear in the forest during my week in Nova Scotia. The boxes play at different speeds depending on how much light is shining on them at any moment, creating ever-changing relationships between them.
Placing the boxes in the forest was a magical experience. They felt alive as they would each stop, go, and change speeds as the light coming through the forest changed in strength and direction. They are surprisingly loud. I had expected them to only be audible to a careful listener, but they can be clearly heard from several meters away. As they began to play as I tied them in place, I could hear the birds that their music was based on all around me through the forest.