Andrew Weathers | Days of Hot Water / Blessed Dirt

Andrew Weathers | Days of Hot Water / Blessed Dirt

Exhibition Dates:  June 24th - July 26th

Work activated from sunset to sunrise each day, (5pm – 7am) 

ICOSA Collective is proud to present a psychogeographic sound installation created by Andrew Weathers.

Days of Hot Water / Blessed Dirt collects sounds from a week spent in northern New Mexico. The piece
is a part of a long-term psychogeographic collection of work called The Land Ethic that I began in 2020.
The name is drawn from an essay by early-20th century nature writer Aldo Leopold, a short discourse on
an approach to treating land and the outdoors with love, respect, and admiration. In my own conception of
Leopold's approach, I turn my ears towards appreciation of minute details of soundscape, making long-form
soundscape recordings wherever I find myself. The Land Ethic is a psychogeographic practice intended to
turn attention on the mundane and the boring, large-scale repetition of memory tracing a life moving
through the landscape. Backyards, empty silos, deserted trailheads, and urban sound filtered through motel
windows are all captured and included within my Land Ethic practice.

Andrew Weathers (b. 1988) is a composer and improviser based in the Llano Estacado region of
northwestern Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place,
as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects
and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape,
and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment
to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is
founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of
sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of
North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also
produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.

His entire collection of The Land Ethic can be found on Bandcamp site:
www.andrewweathers.bandcamp.com