Things you remember, things I forget
Things you remember, things I forget
Fixed stereo electronics for Headphones, created for mobile backpack public performance (2014).
Duration: variable (Total: 5' 25")
These five pieces are fragments of personal sonic memories and favourite sounds, paired with surrealistic impressions of everyday sounds (rain, children in a playground, etc.) The pieces were written for a performance art event where people on the street could listen to material on headphones attached to a mobile setup. Written specifically to interact with the environmental sounds of the chosen locale, the pieces were intended to be played in any order over headphones. The sounds were selected and mixed so the piece would work in two ways: 1) give the feeling of looking at an old, faded photograph through smoke glass, or hearing in one's mind the echo of a distant memory, and 2) create an environment that is simultaneously immersive and open to, or suggestive of the surroundings.
Cafe features the sounds of a seashell wind chime. I've been obsessed with this sound and variants of it for well over a decade. They manage to find their way into many of my projects. I find them rich with complexity, yet somehow simple and beautiful beyond expression. These sounds are framed by a recording I made of the background din at a coffeeshop while working on these pieces.
Seashore # 1 & Seashore # 2 are based on excerpts from a reading of Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu that was done for a dance project I worked on two years ago. In addition to the fond memories of working on the project, I especially fell in love with the sound of one the lines and the way it was read. These are framed by sounds that are suggestive of waves or wind or planes overhead.
Playground & Rain are based on two childhood songs that I chose because of their immediate familiarity to me and because I especially like the sound of a few words in the lyrics of one and the imagery that the other has always inspired in me. These are songs that I've always only heard without ever seeing the singer perform them, so my relationship with them is purely sonic. I chose to frame these two with sounds that are also very immediate, the sound of rain and the sound of schoolchildren in a playground.
Things you remember, things I forget
Fixed stereo electronics for Headphones, created for mobile backpack public performance (2014).
Duration: variable (Total: 5' 25")
These five pieces are fragments of personal sonic memories and favourite sounds, paired with surrealistic impressions of everyday sounds (rain, children in a playground, etc.) The pieces were written for a performance art event where people on the street could listen to material on headphones attached to a mobile setup. Written specifically to interact with the environmental sounds of the chosen locale, the pieces were intended to be played in any order over headphones. The sounds were selected and mixed so the piece would work in two ways: 1) give the feeling of looking at an old, faded photograph through smoke glass, or hearing in one's mind the echo of a distant memory, and 2) create an environment that is simultaneously immersive and open to, or suggestive of the surroundings.
Cafe features the sounds of a seashell wind chime. I've been obsessed with this sound and variants of it for well over a decade. They manage to find their way into many of my projects. I find them rich with complexity, yet somehow simple and beautiful beyond expression. These sounds are framed by a recording I made of the background din at a coffeeshop while working on these pieces.
Seashore # 1 & Seashore # 2 are based on excerpts from a reading of Samuel Beckett's Ohio Impromptu that was done for a dance project I worked on two years ago. In addition to the fond memories of working on the project, I especially fell in love with the sound of one the lines and the way it was read. These are framed by sounds that are suggestive of waves or wind or planes overhead.
Playground & Rain are based on two childhood songs that I chose because of their immediate familiarity to me and because I especially like the sound of a few words in the lyrics of one and the imagery that the other has always inspired in me. These are songs that I've always only heard without ever seeing the singer perform them, so my relationship with them is purely sonic. I chose to frame these two with sounds that are also very immediate, the sound of rain and the sound of schoolchildren in a playground.