The Community is an evolving sculptural installation composed of woven nests made from thousands of discarded instrument strings collected from musicians around the world.

Paired with a kinetic sound system, the installation is brought to life via an immersive soundscape composed and recorded by Audrey Wright. Together, evoking a living natural environment while reflecting on communal experience and the intimacy, fragility, and resilience shared by musicians and nature.

Each nest is handwoven, forming a tactile connection to the literal and metaphorical DNA of those who once played these strings. The grit and grime of musical practice is embedded in the material, echoed in the labor of weaving. These parallel processes coalesce into a broader act of communal storytelling. The recurring nest form reflects a universal impulse to construct, protect, and create spaces of belonging.

Suspended in organic clusters, the nests are mechanically activated at irregular intervals, producing a gentle, organic choreography that resists stasis. An immersive soundscape composed by Audrey Wright, using recordings of her own violin manipulated to imitate bird calls and other environmental textures, is mapped to individual nests and moves fluidly through the space, blurring the boundary between musical instrument and natural ecosystem.

Together, these elements form a living system that breathes, flickers, and resonates. The Community invites viewers to encounter the transformed strings not only as reclaimed materials, but as carriers of memory, sound, and connection.

Site-specific and inherently evolving, The Community is designed to scale to a wide range of spatial settings and size. Through custom compositional software that drives the kinetic sound system, the installation also serves as a platform for composers and sound artists to create new recorded and live immersive soundscapes, allowing the work to continually evolve through interdisciplinary collaboration.