This sound work emerged from an ongoing collaboration with Star Montana during their residency in the Anza-Borrego Desert. What began as a shared inquiry into the landscape soon revealed itself through another sense: sound. Monsher responded to the desert’s acoustic architecture across multiple seasons — the percussive thrum of cicadas during peak heat, sudden spring rainstorms, the low howl of winds throughout the year — not as background noise, but rather as the desert voicing itself. Though conceived alongside Montana’s video work, this piece stands alone as a meditative audio environment. It is not a document but a transmission that invites us to attune to the cycles of life, death, and rebirth that make up the rhythm of the Borregan landscape.
