Another project with ScanLAB Projects – a grand installation in the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona, for which I provided score and sound design. Four outdoor sites in stereo, plus an indoor gallery in ambisonics.

From the ScanLAB Projects site: FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse is a portrait of Phoenix and the Sonoran Desert. Commissioned by Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, the exhibition opened in October 2025 and runs through May 2026 with four large-scale, digital installations nestled amongst the cacti-filled garden, a multi-channel exhibition in a newly-built contemporary gallery space and a gallery to glimpse behind-the-scenes.

We invite you to see and feel this desert city in a way that is impossible with traditional cameras or with your naked eye. Desert Pulse observes vast landscape moments and the intimate breath of cacti. We explore the Phoenix cityscape, waterways, and the Garden’s world-renowned collection. The artwork shines new light on the stoic, beautifully slow life of cacti revealing their rhythmic growth, heliotropic twists, the sudden eruptions of colour that pierce the seeming stillness.

Here, humanity’s beautiful ingenuity and devastating impact share the frame with the desert’s fierce resilience and quiet splendour. We bring our tools and craft to bear witness, creating an invitation to pause, observe, and imagine. These artworks ask you to join us in a moment of reflection to see, to feel, and to hope.

Photographs: Sebastiaan de With and ScanLAB Projects