An East End Sound Map: Cal Fish, Becca Rodriguez, and ONE LANDSCAPE
The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to present An East End Sound Map: Cal Fish, Becca Rodriguez, and ONE LANDSCAPE, a four-day immersive installation and interactive program exploring the sonic, ecological, and narrative layers of the East End landscape, taking place in the Little Gallery. Artists Cal Fish and Becca Rodriguez invite the public into a rich sensory environment that combines sound sculpture, handmade media, community mapping, and collective memory.
Utilizing field recordings and materials gathered from East Hampton sites—including Louse Point, the Walking Dunes, Beachampton, and Sunset Road (commonly known as Squaw Road)—the artists transform the gallery into a living archive. The installation features participatory sound sculptures, pigment-based paper works, soft sculpture, and a speculative map shaped by oral histories, conversations, and fieldwork. Rooted in archival research with the collective ONE LANDSCAPE and developed during the artists’ 2024 residency at The Watermill Center, the project offers audiences a dynamic invitation to engage with the land as a vessel of story, grief, resilience, and interconnectedness. Through a series of workshops, conversations, and performances, the program cultivates an evolving portrait of place grounded in experimentation, care, and collaboration.
Program Schedule
Thursday, August 7 | 2–7 PM | Soft Opening + An Evening of Dynamic Listening
Explore this ecologically oriented body of work created for the Napeague stretch and surrounding communities. Interactive elements include soft sound sculptures, a digital East End map interface, and a ceramic tabletop game. Featured alongside the main installation are additional multimedia works by Cecil Howell, Tanya Marcuse, Constantine Baecher, Rebecca Walden, Ann de Forest, and Kris Murphy—most created during the ONE LANDSCAPE collective’s 2025 residency at The Watermill Center.
Friday, August 8 | 6:30–7:30 PM | Connecting Napeague: ONE LANDSCAPE Social
Join artists and Margie Ruddick, landscape architect and founder of ONE LANDSCAPE, for casual discussion, refreshments, and viewing of this artwork for Napeague’s unique ecosystem, preservation & remediation efforts, community networks, and imaginative futures.
Saturday, August 9 | 6:30–8 PM | Music to Honor and Channel Stephen Dickman
An evening honoring the life and music of beloved East End composer Stephen Dickman. Stephen Dickman, a beloved composer and neighbor of Duck Creek for over 38 years, was a poetic musician and deeply thoughtful human. He led the successful effort to preserve the waterfront property across from his home in collaboration with the Town of East Hampton—a space he cherished for its sunsets, swans, and shoreline, now open to the public for all to enjoy. His distinguished career included prestigious honors such as the Bearns Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, Tanglewood Fellowships, and a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Stephen’s compositions reflect a lifetime of global travel and deep musical study, particularly in India. He served as Managing Director of the Music Festival of the Hamptons and Pianofest, and he founded Composers of the East End , a concert series dedicated to fellow Long Island-based composers.Stephen’s daughter, Nyssa Eva Dickman-Frank, will present selections from his archive—including recordings, scores, and writings. His music will be reimagined through live performance by Nyssa’s friends at Duck Creek. Attendees are invited to a reception at the Dickman estate following the performance. Featured performers include Dean Cercone, Booshie Mystik, Saturn Lavender, Frank/ie Consent, and Adventure Bear (Becca and Cal), offering interpretations ranging from cello renditions of Stephen’s work to avant-garde electronics and ambient meditations.
Sunday, August 10 | 2–7:30 PM | Soft Closing + Rain Date
A final opportunity to explore this collection of ecologically oriented art made for the Napeague stretch and its surrounding communities. This day also serves as a rain date for any postponed programming.
About the Artists
Fish and Rodriguez have collaborated since 2021, united by shared interests in sound, ecology, and community-based art. Their work blends sculpture, performance, and archival processes to invite active listening, play, and collective imagining.
Cal Fish is a cross-disciplinary artist from Sea Cliff, NY, now based in Brooklyn. Their work spans sound sculpture, social sculpture, video, and performance, exploring ecology, history, and community through immersive sonic environments. Cal has exhibited widely across North America and Europe and directs Brooklyn’s Living Gallery. Becca Rodriguez, a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Florida and Georgia, now living in Brooklyn, works in printmaking, papermaking, ceramics, and natural dye research. Their practice centers on watery landscapes, life cycles, and speculative ecosystems. Becca has taught in various media and contributed to conservation research at the Amphibian Foundation.
ONE LANDSCAPE is a collective of artists and landscape professionals exploring ecological, historical, and cultural connections across Long Island’s East End. They engage communities through art, dialogue, and environmental advocacy to foster new ways of understanding and caring for the region’s diverse landscapes.
This project is free and open to the public.
An East End Sound Map: Cal Fish, Becca Rodriguez, and ONE LANDSCAPE
August 7–10, 2025
Location: The Little Gallery, The Arts Center at Duck Creek 127 Squaw Road, East Hampton, NY
Website: www.duckcreekarts.org
Email: info@duckcreekarts.org
