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Together we bring Resonance to life.

Resonance is a climbable, large-scale bamboo queen's conch shell that transforms sound, light, and movement into a shared ritual journey.

Standing three stories tall and built entirely from bamboo, it is an immersive art installation designed to be explored as a playground for movement and a sacred gathering space for deep, reflective listening.

The Journey

Participants enter beneath an undulating bamboo roof filled with massive bamboo wind chimes, warm light, and reflective shell fragments.

Moving inward and upward, they spiral through the structure, playing, climbing, and listening as the architecture guides them across stairs, nets, ladders, platforms, and crevices.

A Collective Ritual

At sunrise and sunset, citizens gather as conch shells are blown together in a brief, coordinated call, honoring ancestors and natural cycles as many breaths become one voice.

Throughout the structure, sound emerges, bamboo chimes, story shells, and immersive vibrations create an immersive environment that is felt as much as heard echoing the experience of being in water or inside a shell.

Radical Inclusivity

Resonance is committed to fostering a more radically inclusive and diverse community by amplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices through sound, ritual, and collaboration.

Indigenous and BIPOC community members are invited to lead land blessings and the sunrise and sunset conch rituals, offering words, prayers, or reflections that anchor the experience in lived cultural wisdom.

Philosophy

Resonance is about coming into balance and harmony with nature and with each other. It exists to remind us that we are not separate from the rhythms that shaped us.

Built from natural form, material, sound, and light, it is a love letter to the living world, where the spiral reminds us that life moves in cycles of growth, change, and return.

Carrying the memory of water into the desert, Resonance becomes a voice asking us to respect, honor, and protect the natural world, and leaves participants with a felt sense of belonging, to each other, to time, and to the earth itself.

Construction, Materials, & Engineering

The spiral form of Resonance is generated through parametric modeling, creating a precise and buildable interpretation of a conch shell.

This digital model guides prefabrication, material calculations, and an augmented reality layout system used on site to assemble the structure with volunteer teams.

A central hyperboloid bamboo tower provides vertical and lateral stability, while arched bamboo ribs, laminated arches, and bundled poles form the sweeping shell, locked together by an interwoven bamboo grid shell that creates a porous outer skin that allows wind and light to move through the structure.

Sustainability

Resonance advances sustainability by demonstrating bamboo as a lightweight, strong, rapidly renewable, and carbon-sequestering material for large-scale art and architecture.

By showcasing bamboo's structural beauty, strength, and flexibility at scale, Resonance promotes regenerative building practices and a more sustainable relationship with materials.

Through precise digital and physical modeling as well as prefabricated components, the project minimizes waste and enables materials to be repurposed for future installations.

Resonance Art Collective

We are a diverse team of artists, engineers, musicians, builders, and project leaders united by a shared commitment to creating sustainable, interactive art from bamboo. Our core build team was trained by Bamboo University in Bali and includes licensed structural engineers, architects, and master bamboo carpenters.

Elliot Fabri - Manifestor Vision Weaver

Elliot is a community builder, entrepreneur, regenerative designer and builder, food alchemist, environmentalist, adventurer, burner, and manifestor. He is the founder of EcoCraft Homes, a sustainable construction company with over 100 structures built in 12 years, earning top certifications like Living Building and LEED Platinum. Elliot also co-founded Kumukahi Village, a permaculture and intentional living community focused on regenerative farming and off-grid living. Expanding his creative expertise, he launched Roots Alchemy, transforming local, organic, whole foods into medicine for the soul through catering and retreat chef services. A graduate of Bamboo U, Elliot was exposed to the most innovative approaches to building with bamboo, one of the planet's most regenerative resources.

Shane Thunder - Project Manager

Shane is a California-based Master Sound Alchemist residing in Santa Barbara, CA. After self-inducing a kundalini awakening in Dec. 2011, he has traveled throughout the country for the last 8 years offering his 432hz Spirit Metacine in the passionate belief of unifying the body, mind, and spirit through the healing arts. He has held space for workshops, instructional classes, and ceremonies guided by his Higher-Self to share his musical gifts with the crystal Gemstone singing bowls and many more instruments.

Ed Wilkes - Geometry & Structural Engineering

Ed is passionate about structures and exploring innovative ways to build. Based in London, he brings over a decade of experience designing buildings, bridges, and installations. Inspired by his time in Bali, Ed is now dedicated to advancing bamboo design and contributing to international projects that redefine sustainable architecture.

Luis Echeverría - Architectural Construction

Mexican architect with a decade of expertise in bamboo construction, winner of international architectural competitions in Hungary, India, China and Chile. Passionate about education and sustainability, integrated into modern esthetics with eco-building practices.

RhythMx Turner - Sound Management & DEI Lead

Rhythm Turner (he/him) brings over 25 years of experience in music, live sound, performance, and event production, all grounded in his dedication to creating moving and transformative experiences. As a Latinx trans man and the R.I.D.E. (Radical Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity) lead for this project, Rhythm combines his passion for amplifying LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices with his expertise in artist coordination and cultural curation. Since 2016, his Burning Man contributions have included building and striking large-scale camps, booking artists, DJing as RhythMx, and creating immersive art that fosters connection and creativity. Certified in heavy equipment operation and trained in ZENDO’s harm-reduction practices, Rhythm excels at both constructing physical spaces and cultivating safe, inclusive environments.

Mia Larsen - Architectural Design

Mia is an architectural designer from Australia whose passion for design is driven by a desire for sustainable solutions. She has taught bamboo architecture and building at Bamboo U in Bali and worked on bamboo festival projects in Australia. Mia is drawn to the challenge of designing with natural materials in ways that are both functional and beautiful.

Byron Léger - Build Team Lead

Aloha, my name is Byron Claude Léger. I'm originally from South Louisiana but live on the Big Island of Hawaii in a beautiful intentional community! I'm a carpenter and have built homes all over the United States, Canada, and Costa Rica, including many disaster relief projects which is something I'm passionate about. I am also passionate about alternative/ natural building and studied bamboo building at Bamboo U, in Bali. My other passions include, self expression, dance, music, art, sustainability, permaculture, and Community!

Steven Melter - Operations & Camp Lead

Steven Melter is a community organizer with deep roots in the SF dance community. He pulls people together from all walks of life to create impactful events with a touch of magic and a lasting impression.

Brooke Saporito - Social Media, Marketing, & Events

A dancer, a rational, an intuitive. Brooke is a community advocate above all with a special interest in authentic joy and safety of expression in the sober space. In this project specifically, fostering engagement and attention in the digital space. A life-long leader and people strategist, Brooke has co-facilitated the Conflux community festival of Seattle through 4 iterations. A world traveler who is intentionally looking for the successful ways in which people gather and create community, for the sake of connection beyond language and borders. With formal education in kinesiology and psychology Brooke uses nursing as an avenue to understand what people need on a fundamental level to successfully engage at the communal level.

Ibeya Allf - Project Manager & Graphic Design

Ibeya is an innovative, resourceful professional with 10 years of management, coordination, and leadership experience, compelled by fostering spaces that blend art, science, human-centered design, and radical sustainability. She regularly draws on the problem-solving mindset of her academic training in astrophysics, the human-centered perspective from her work in science education, and the visual thinking style of her lifelong pursuit of art and design. An alumnus of Bamboo U and recipient of Honorable Mention in the 2024 Bamboo U x IBUKU Bamboo Playground Design Contest, Ibeya has a deep appreciation for sustainable materials and designs that connect people to the natural world. A dedicated Burner for six years and camp lead for two, she thrives in designing logistical infrastructure and interactive physical spaces that inspire play, wonder, community, and connection.

Marin Cosmos - Director of Visual Art

Visual Artist, filmmaker & photographer, diver, immersive experiences, intimacy coach, embodiment practitioner, underwater dancer, truth seeker and obsessed with water.“I am many things and here to remind you all the depth within you!” Master graduated from Cinematography at MET film school London. As an international artist Marin has traveled 40 countries doing retreats, films, commercials, features, photoshoots, events and expositions with the intention of water awareness and expansion of consciousness.

Micah Trecca - Sound Design

Trecca is a producer, sound designer, and DJ who weaves dance music with imaginative soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from somatic medicine and the power of movement, Trecca's work transcends the ordinary, finessing sonic frequencies to pierce the veil and explore other dimensions. His trance-inducing beats and mixes clear the mind and create space for lucid exploration and elevated consciousness. Currently, Trecca is channeling his creative energy into the dance community in his home in Kona and the Big Island.

NAOBA - Sound Design

NAOBA is a visionary sound alchemist creating sound healing, cinematic sound design, and bringing ecstatic dance sound into immersive, transformative experiences. Specializing in 3D sound design and spatial audio, she crafts dynamic soundscapes that move beyond mere sound, guiding listeners through deep emotional and psychological journeys. Her expertise in psychoacoustic research allows her to explore the powerful ways frequencies shape consciousness and influence the nervous system. As the creator of Heart in Nature, NAOBA merges science and spirit, revealing the healing power of natural soundscapes and their profound impact on human well-being. From meditative compositions to vibrant, pulsating dance journeys, NAOBA's work spans a diverse range of projects, offering immersive sonic environments for film, ceremony, and expansive states of awareness. Her exquisite taste in sound design shines through in every project, where she intertwines organic textures, deep atmospheres, and a spirit of playful exploration. Currently, NAOBA is delighted to contribute her sound design to Resonance for Burning Man, creating spatially dynamic audio that enhances the sculpture's interaction with the environment and audience.

Contact us: resonanceartcollective@gmail.com

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