KAPEMNI SOUND ART 2022

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Sound is a powerful medium to create art. It is a constant part of our human experience. It is simple and complex, like gravity. We move through it and participate. There is a flow.

Kapemni is a Lakota word that means “As it is Above; It is Below” ^{(1) (2)}. This relationship of Sky (above), and Earth (below) is woven throughout every Indigenous culture, possibly throughout all human cultures.

This is a Soundscape Project, “Kapemni – Sounds of Earth & Sky”, that is about our human experience with sound – mind, body, heart, spirit – and how connecting with our sonic environment allows us to participate with the rhythms of the seasons we are a part of… sonic re-calibration through relationship to place.

Keywords: Indigenous Sound Art, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Epistemologies, Soundscapes

FALL KAPEMNI SOUNDSCAPE 2022

“Ptanyetu, Dagwaagin, Fall – Kapemni Soundscape- Finding Stillness in the Motion”, Annette S. Lee, Oct. 2022

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What’s your Soundscape? Let’s get back to the source.

Sound as a human heritage legacy. It ties us to vibrations inside, outside, all around… We really are all interconnected.

SUMMER KAPEMNI SOUNDSCAPE 2022

“Bdoketu, Niibin, Summer – Kapemni Soundscape”, Annette S. Lee, Aug. 2022

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Finding Stillness – Summer, Motion to Stillness, Machines all around, Nature all around… Heartbeat persists, so much abundance here in the Commodity Culture….Summer 2022

Concept includes the following Sound Textures:

Heartbeat, Crickets, Maang-Loon, River, swamp, eagle scream, geese, wasp, mosquitos, frogs, crickets, cicadas, crows, woodpecker, raven, bees, wasp, Mishi Bizhiw-Panther, squirrel, Rain, Wakinyans-Thunder, Aajiijak-crane, kids playing…

… teapot boiling water, ice machine, dryer, tornado siren, lawn mower, commercial jet, ….

….ice cream truck…. and more!

SPRING KAPEMNI SOUNDSCAPE 2022

“Wetu, Ziigwan, Spring – Kapemni Soundscape”, Annette S. Lee, May 2022

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Can you hear the sounds of Spring in the “Wetu, Ziigwan, Spring – Kapemni Soundscape”?

Concept includes the following Sound Textures:

Maang-Loon, Mishi Bizhiw-Panther, Wakinyan-Thunderbeings…

Birds like crane, goose, duck…Songbirds like cardinal, robin, sparrow, chickadee… Rivers flowing, ice melting, Rain falling, …..Heart beating

… Zaagibagaa.. the world waking up, the moment of birth… Wakinyans Thunderbeings Return!

What are the Sounds of Spring where you live? How do you experience the moment through the sonic environment near you?

^{[1] Ref. Albert Whitehat Sr, 2015}

^{[2] Ref. Annette S. Lee, et. al.. Dakota/Lakota Star Map Constellation Guide: An Introduction to D/Lakota Star Knowledge. Minnesota: Native Skywatchers Press, 2014.}

^{[3] Ref. Westerkamp, Hildegard “Hildegard Westerkamp-Inside the Soundscape.” Hildegard Westerkamp. Accessed October 8, 2022. http://www.hildegardwesterkamp.ca/main/index.php.}

^{[4] Ref. “WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT.” https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html.}