Eco Echoes

What echoes reverberate when we truly listen?When we hold a sound and examine it, sense its presence and absence? By listening deeply to stories, places, bodies, landscapes—even to apparent nothingness—we can perceive what remains invisible yet profoundly present through its resonance.We inhabit a world shaped by echoes from the past—traces inscribed in our thinking patterns, climate conditions, relationships, and perceptions. Every action we take creates new resonances, layering upon or transforming existing ones. In a burning world, the question becomes urgent: Which of these echoes do we wish to amplify, reduce, or create anew?Eco Echoes draws inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, which proposes a radical rethinking of narratives beyond traditional tales of conflict and conquest. Le Guin suggests that the earliest human tools were containers—bags and baskets—symbolizing gathering and nurturing rather than violence. Following this vision, we view books as carrier bags: vessels that hold complexity, community, and continuity.The works presented here are excerpts and quotes from books within the BaseCamp Library, offering diverse ecological perspectives beyond mainstream narratives, making visible the complex connections between environmental, social, and cultural systems. These are stories of echoes within ecologies, effects of actions within ecosystems, and thoughts on how dichotomies and objectivities impact all beings. They carry concepts for action, rewritings, and the making of kinship.The collection features artistic approaches that invite new ways of sensing, functioning as both conversation starters and springboards to dive deeper into specific visions and realities. As global exchanges of ideas are essential for developing strategies to consciously select and amplify important stories, this collection presents diverse perspectives on ecologies and their reverberations. It encourages sensing the echoes that shape our present and imagining new resonances for collective futures.BaseCamp Library is a book space initiated by the BaseCamp Festival that invites the public to discover art and ideas through books while providing an open space for gathering, meeting, exchanging, and inspiration. Launched in 2024, the library’s selection reflects topics related to the broader universe of cinema, beginning with a focus on sound in its inaugural edition. Conceived as a living archive that grows with each edition and travels throughout the year to other art spaces, the library maintains an organic platform and network that fosters community and exchange.From its debut edition, Hold The Sound, the library expands with ninety additional books connected to themes of echoes, the effects of actions, and their impact on ecologies. The excerpts and quotes in this publication are drawn from books within this collection and present essential stories, ideas, observations, and speculations about our interconnected world. Here, books inspire meaningful connection across boundaries, where we can listen to what Le Guin called “the seeds still to be gathered,” finding room in the bag of stars.Containing quotes from books featuring Anicka Yi, Anna Atkins, Annie Goh, Antoine Chessex, Apian, Astrida Neimanis, Batia Suter, Bianca Pedrina, Daniela Poch, Denise Bertschi, Donna J. Haraway, Dorion Sagan, Graeme Thomson, Ingo Giezendanner, Irena Haiduk, Jonas Staal, Kate Crawford, Kim Lang, Louis Chude-Sokei, Lynn Margulis, Mara-Luna Brandt Corstius, Noëmie Stähli, Paolo Cirio, Pedro Wirz, Pedro Zylbersztajn, Radha D’Souza, Sibylle Eimermacher, Silvia Maglioni, Sui Searle, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Zheng Bo.