Poet · Sound Practitioner · Field-Based Research · Ecologist
I am one with the Earth, the Earth is one with me.
t@earthinterface.com
@tiberius.tez
Tiberius Schmidt is a poet and sound practitioner whose work explores the intersections of ecology, architecture, and perception. Writing primarily in haiku, his practice treats language as a form of listening—registering moments of continuity between human and non-human systems. Alongside poetry, he experiments with sound design, field-based research, and environmental interfaces. He is a co-founder of Hydrality and Earth Interface, and is currently developing Coral Software, projects rooted in stewardship, infrastructure, and ecological restoration.
Hydrality
Earth Interface
Reefer Base (In Development)
Kahf Magazine — Issue II (2025)
Haiku, Architecture Issue
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Haiku / Poetry
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My practice unfolds across environments—textual, acoustic, geological, and lived. I work primarily through haiku as a method of compression, using short forms to register moments where perception, material, and lineage briefly align. These poems function as artifacts of attention: minimal in structure, expansive in implication. They are not conclusions, but thresholds.
Alongside writing, I experiment with sound design and composition, treating audio as a spatial medium—one that moves through time the way stone moves through pressure. This work includes the development of listening tools and interfaces, such as the Lith Listener for Earth Interface, designed to engage sound as a means of environmental attunement rather than signal extraction. Field recordings, modular synthesis, and generative processes inform how I think about rhythm, silence, and resonance. Sound becomes a way to listen before naming, to receive rather than impose.
My relationship with landscape is not symbolic but embodied. As a mountaineer and rock climber, I engage terrain directly—through ascent, exposure, repetition, and risk. These experiences shape how I understand scale, effort, and presence. Mountains are not backdrops; they are systems that instruct. Much of my work carries this instruction quietly, through restraint and form.
I am also involved in building systems beyond art. I co-founded Hydrality, Earth Interface, and am currently developing Coral Software—projects rooted in water, environment, and ecological restoration. These ventures are not separate from my creative practice; they are extensions of it. They ask how infrastructure, stewardship, and design might operate with greater awareness of the living world they serve.
At a broader scale, my work is guided by a commitment to preservation—understanding that care for the Earth extends beyond scientific intervention alone. Conservation also moves through art, language, listening, and human connection. Across poem, sound, ascent, and system, I am interested in how attention itself can become an act of stewardship—how meaning, once felt and shared, might encourage more enduring forms of responsibility toward the world we inhabit.