This 27 minute radio version of When We Bow Down Our Heads was created by John Roach specifically for radia.fm. The work celebrates the resonance of wind and its promiscuous and borderless nature by combining 10 years of spatialized field recordings, live intervention of performers Wolf Robert Stratmann (double bass) and Inbal Hever (voice), and fragments of interviews that provide contextual turbulence. Two voices are heard in this edit, the interdisciplinary artist and composer Raven Chacon and the Geophysical Scientist Joonsuk Kang.

John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound and multisensory experience who builds environments that blur the line between what we see and what we hear. His work moves fluidly between intermedia installation, radio transmission, performance, object-making, and image-making. It is guided by a playful embrace of uncertainty – something that is often fully activated through collaboration. Many projects focus on themes related to ecological systems, biodiversity, and climate, such as the installation Scorched Honey Archive about the complex interconnections between humans and pollinators that was exhibited at NARS and BioBAT galleries in Brooklyn, NY.