Soundproof
![‘Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, 1977’ (credit: John Cliett)](https://images.prismic.io/thecircular/9d342ab6-34b6-47f8-8a38-304a3df031e6_demaria-the-lightning-field-2-1977-photo-john-cliett.jpeg?ixlib=gatsbyFP&auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&q=50&w=880&h=700)
Energy Grids
Radio maker Sherre DeLys and musician Chris Abrahams visit Walter De Maria’s work The Lightning Field, an installation of 400 stainless steel poles set in a grid formation in remote New Mexico. As with other pieces by DeLys that portray striking environments – maybe most prominently, 'Jarman’s Garden' (2001) – it demonstrates how visual sound can be. 'Energy Grids' hums with energy. I’d almost dare to describe it as non-fiction music.