Colette Copeland: Soundings: Texas – Let Your Voice Be Heard

Colette Copeland: Soundings: Texas – Let Your Voice Be Heard

Soundings is a collaborative, community-based experimental sound installation that amplifies historically silenced voices in Texas-specifically those of women, non-binary, and queer individuals. In the wake of the recent political shifts, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade and proposed legislation threatening the LGBTQIA + rights, this project asserts the urgency of making our voices heard. Participants are invited to choose a phrase or series of phrases that held deep personal meaning-words they wished to sound into the universe. Those who spoke multiple languages expressed themselves in all of them. Their voices were then woven together into a layered sonic composition, forming a chant-like symphony-part mantra, part reclamation-symbolizing collective power and resilience. The voices change out monthly.

Copeland’s recordings will run from August to December 2025 in the Martin McDonald Hall Gallery.