SILENT ARCHITECTS : Dave Maric (2025)

a multimedia work for GBSR duo, film & art installation

Drawing inspiration from intricate dams, pools, and riparian zones crafted by nature’s master engineers, Silent Architects unveils the hidden world of beavers and their transformative impact.

Filmed across the wetlands of Bamff Wildland—the UK’s most mature modern beaver habitat—this multisensory project merges drone footage, thermal imagery, trail-camera vignettes and cinematic video. Featuring a live performance from the award-winning GBSR Duo (George Barton, Siwan Rhys) and an art installation, it reveals how these elusive creatures re-plumb entire watersheds: slowing torrents, trapping silt, and sculpting dynamic wetlands.

Included are time-lapsed evolution—ponds swelling over seasons, channels diverted by gnawed timber, and maps charting water’s redirected dance. Audible are the sonic textures of their labour: wood splintering under teeth, midnight dives, and currents murmuring through spillways, captured by audio moths and cameras. Sculptural beaver wood spills from large-scale prints into the gallery, blurring artifact and artistry. The duo mirrors this alchemy, weaving struck and bowed objects, electronics, piano, and field recordings into a score that ebbs with the land’s rhythm.

A meditation on chaos and creation.

SILENT ARCHITECTS (2025):

composed for percussion, piano, musical saw and electronics, with film
Film and music by Dave Maric


Duration 30 minutes


Art installation: featuring photographic prints, digital art, video, audio and organic elements.
Designed and created by Dave Maric.

First performance:

GBSR Duo
Sound Festival
Performance space, The Barn multi-arts centre, Banchory, Aberdeenshire
26 October 2025


Art installation:

Sound Festival
Gallery space, The Barn multi-arts centre, Banchory, Aberdeenshire
Sound Festival 23 October - 2 November 2025