On May 5, friends and family of Sydney Wekstein gathered in the basement of a church in Bushwick for the runway show of fashion brand and collective Worldofmyown’s “Lappel du Vide”–french for “Call of the Void”–collection.

Blends of abrasive noises, animatronic performers, and mysterious producers juxtaposed with everyday inspiration are nothing out of the ordinary for the Philadelphia-based audio project, Ecology: Homestones (E:HS). The eccentricity I viewed in one of E:HS’ 15-second Tiktoks threw me into a spiral of curiosity and the need to know everything about the performance and project behind it.