Solosuite for Extinct Birds No. 1

Solosuite for Extinct Birds No. 1 centers on the recorded voice of the Kaua‘i ʻŌʻō, an extinct bird last heard in 1987. Embedded within a small wooden speaker box, the call falls silent whenever movement is detected nearby. The work can only be heard through stillness, distance, or patient attention.

Among the recordings is the final known mating call of the species: a voice continuing to search for a response that will never arrive. Presence itself interrupts the possibility of listening.

Suspended between memorial, technological artifact, and acoustic apparition, the work examines extinction not only as biological disappearance, but as the irreversible loss of sound, relation, and shared atmosphere.