Barrissando is the artist’s neologism, derived from the French verb barrir, meaning “to trumpet”—the cry of an elephant. Rubbing a wet mirror, the artist makes the sound and amplifies it, drawing out a resonance that recalls an elephant’s call. By revealing the source of the sound through the moving image, the work heightens our awareness of an “acousmatic” situation—hearing sound severed from image, source, or meaning. Rooted in music’s long history of echoing the natural world—from animal calls to environmental sounds, and even hunting bird-call whistles—the piece asks what it means to make nature speak through sound.