Project Description
Andy Graydon
FSC-Harvard Fellow 2019-20, 2020-21, 2026-27
Andy Graydon is an artist and filmmaker originally from Maui, Hawai’i. His work is concerned with natural and social ecologies, and with sound and listening as creative practices. Recent projects have focused on island ecologies and the imaginal and narrative forms employed by the natural sciences. His projects frequently engage structures of music such as the ensemble, the score, improvisation and variation, and techniques of the voice.
Graydon’s work has been presented internationally, including at the New Museum, Mass MoCA, Berlinische Galerie, Frye Art Museum, and the Honolulu Biennial. Grants and fellowships include awards from the McKnight Foundation, MacDowell, the National Endowment for the Arts, NKD Nordic Artists’ Center, and Headlands Center for the Arts. He has also collaborated widely as a sound artist and composer.
FSC Works
Hollows
Katarina Burin and Andy Graydon
Hollows is a collaborative project by Katarina Burin and Andy Graydon that explores the shifting relationship between sound, structure, and form through site recordings, sculptural fabrication, and audiovisual composition. Working with concrete architectures and industrial remnants across Boston and Europe, the project treats spaces not as fixed entities but as resonant systems, assemblages of cavities, thresholds, and openings where sound gathers, distorts, and re-emerges. Field recordings, coded transmissions, and re-spatialized audio intersect with hollow, perforated sculptural forms that act as listening devices, producing displacements between voice, site, and memory. The resulting large-scale installation and performance environment invites visitors to navigate an unstable architectural landscape shaped by delay, reflection, and interference, where sound does not simply inhabit space but actively constructs and erodes it.
Echo Answers
Andy Graydon
Echo Answers is a multi-channel video and sound installation that connects a group of scientists and artists in a collective exploration of their voices in relation to the spaces – architectural, virtual and disciplinary – through which they operate.