"Spring Cleaning" and "Front Seat Spring" are both short, experimental creations by Madison Sherman. In their own ways, they immerse the audience within a non-anthropocentric experience of springtime.
These works were created with intentionality and mindfulness toward a nature-focused end.
Soundscape Composition
Front Seat Spring is an immersive audio creation that supplants man-made sound from being the focus of our listening to the “back seat”. While the human sounds are still slightly present, they provide the ambience for the soundscape of nature at the forefront.
Listen to the ambience of spring from a nonanthropocentric point of view and wonder whether nature attempts to “zone out” human-caused noise. By bringing the natural soundscape to the “front seat”, and listening to the world through a nature-centric standpoint, Front Seat Spring poses a sort of dare to listen outside of an established human worldview.
Spring Cleaning is an experimental documentary that rewrites the stereotypical springtime narrative. It reveals how dirty and “ugly” spring can be, and basks in the beauty of that reality.
A close-up immersion into the dirty yet unconventionally beautiful sides of springtime, Spring Cleaning defies the standard “butterflies and rainbows” spring ideal. In a poetic daydream of springtime, a messy underbelly of nature bursts with color, texture, and contemplation. Its meditative stillness and visual richness make for a minimalistic yet enrapturing experience to watch.