The last project we completed together with Phill in the summer of 2023 at an informal residency in Lithuania at the country residence of artist friends Francisco Janes and Jurate Jarulyte.

A single 22-minute long-sequence shot from a fixed point of the different wave patterns the gusts of wind were making on the surface of the water of a pond, as well as the life of the fauna and flora around it, on a very windy day, accompanied by a collage of sounds captured and mixed by Phill Niblock, assisted by Francisco Janes, in the surrounding area.

The fixed point of view of the video was from the veranda of the house on a pond of Francisco and Jurate in the Lithuanian countryside where Phill and I spent entire long August days with them and their young daughter Carolina. And the soundtrack was derived from audio recorded by Phill during long drives we took along the unpaved gravelly roads through the woods and fields of the environs that Phill and Francisco processed and mixed in Francisco's studio there.

Originally, we were each working on a piece of our own. Phill on a sound piece (Rumble Mumble), me on a video piece (Wind Waves). But when we both finished our pieces, we discovered that they were the same length! and when we combined them they fit together so well! Like some of the Cage / Cunningham collaborations... So this video-audio piece was meant to be: “Wind Waves / Rumble Mumble”.

Katherine Liberovskaya